_Zonaras_ and _Cedrinus_ write this Prophecy the same Way, but differ in the _Greek_ from _Socrates_, and put for δροσερὴν, ἱερὴν, for λουτροῖο, λουτροῖσι, for ἄγρια μαρμαίροντα, ἄγρα μαργαίνοντα, for καλιρόοιο, κιμμερίοιο. This Prophecy is thus interpreted by _Socrates_, who tells us, that it was fully accomplished, when _Valens_ built an _Aqueduct_, which supplied the City with Plenty of Water, when the _Barbarous_ Nations invaded the Territories of _New Rome_. However, it is capable of being interpreted in another Manner. For after _Valens_ had brought the _Aqueduct_ into _Constantinople_, _Clearchus_, the _Prefect_ of the City, built a large Cistern in the _Forum_ of _Theodosius_, into which the _Aqueduct_ emptied it self, and the People were there entertained at a jovial Feast, and that therefore it was called the _plentiful Cistern_, which they tell you, was foretold by the Prophecy in the Lines abovementioned. But some Part of this Prophecy was not fulfilled till some Time after, when the Wall of _Chalcedon_ was pulling down by the Order of _Valens_. At this Time the People of _Nicomedia_, of _Nice_, and _Bithynia_, petitioned the Emperor against it, who being highly displeased with them for it, could hardly be prevailed upon to comply with their Petition; and therefore to disengage himself from an Oath he had made to demolish the Wall, he ordered other Stones to be placed in their Room, as fast as the old ones were taken down. So that you may see at present, what a mean Superstructure is railed upon the Remains of the old Wall, which consisted of Stones of the largest, and most wonderful Size. _Zonaras_ and _Cedrinus_ record it also, that _Valens_ to express his Resentment against the People of _Chalcedon_, for giving Protection to his Enemy _Procopius_, commanded the Walls of their City to be demolished, and an _Aqueduct_ to be made of their Stones, which the former Historian sometimes calls the _Aqueduct_ of _Valens_, and the latter sometimes the _Aqueduct_ of _Valentinian_; and adds, among other Passages of the History before mentioned, that according to the Prophecy, the _Barbarous_ Nations made their Incursions into _Thrace_, but were afterwards defeated. The _Aqueduct_ of _Valentinian_, which is highly arched, passing thro’ the tenth Ward, reaches from the Sides of the fourth, to the Side of the third Hill. I should be much surprized, that the Author _of the Description of the Wards_, who has taken Notice of the Granaries of _Valentinian_, has not mentioned it; but that I am sensible he has omitted many other Monuments of _Antiquity_, which were in Being in his Time. In the Reign of _Constantine_, the Son of _Leo_ the Emperor (who was a declared Enemy to Images in Churches) and in the Year of our Lord 759, there was so great a Drought at _Constantinople_, that the Dew ceas’d to fall from Heaven, and all the Cisterns, _Bagnio’s_, and Fountains of the City were dry’d up; which the Emperor