The Antiquities of Constantinople: With a Description of Its Situation, the Conveniencies of Its Port, Its Publick Buildings, the Statuary, Sculpture, Architecture, and Other Curiosities of That CityGilles, Pierre
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The Antiquities of Constantinople: With a Description of Its Situation, the Conveniencies of Its Port, Its Publick Buildings, the Statuary, Sculpture, Architecture, and Other Curiosities of That City
Gilles, Pierre
Istanbul (Turkey) -- Antiquities; Istanbul (Turkey) -- Description and travel; Turkey -- Antiquities
Upon the _Porphyry_ Pillar in the _Philadelphium_.
Muselius’ _publick Acts aloud proclaim,
A firm Attachment to the Emperor’s Service.
This fam’d_ Museum, _sacred Seat of Learning
He rais’d, and plac’d his Prince’s Picture here._
And another thus.
_This Building is an Honour to the Learn’d,
One of the City’s brightest Ornaments,
A Spur to laudable and virtuous Actions,
A great Encouragement to virtuous Men._
And again.
_The good_ Muselius, _steddily believing
The heavenly_ λόγος _to be truly God,
This Structure made an Off’ring to his Service._
_Julian_, the _Prefect_ of the City, set up a gilded Statue of
_Anastasius_ before the _College_ of the Poets, on which was inscribed
a Couple of elegant Verses; yet no Mention is made in them, in what
Part of the City this College was built. When a Report was made to
_Manuel_ the Emperor, that from antient Times, on the West Side of the
_Forum_ of _Constantine_, there had stood in the Nich of the Wall two
female Statues made of Brass, one a _Roman_, the other an _Hungarian_
Woman; and that the Statue of the _Roman_ Woman projected, by Reason of
its Craziness, beyond its Base, and the Statue of the _Hungarian_ Woman
stood fixed in its Station; he sent some Workmen to erect the _Roman_,
and demolish the _Hungarian_ Statue, thinking by this Means, that the
Affairs of _New-Rome_ would take a new Turn of Prosperity and Success.
In the same _Forum_, among other elegant Statues of famous Men, was the
Statue of _Longinus_, who had been _Prefect_ of the City, on which was
cut the following Inscription, made by _Arabius_.
Iberia, Persis, _and the distant_ Nile,
_The_ Solymæans, Indians, _and_ Armenians,
_With all th’ extended Regions of the West,
The_ Colchi, _bordering near to_ Caucasus,
_Which hides its tow’ring Head amongst the Clouds,
And all the flow’ry Plains of fair_ Arabia,
Longinus’ _Expedition can attest;
With what Dispatch he flew to treat of Peace,
And with what Speed successfully return’d_.
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