The _Cistern_ of _Magnaura_, which stood near the Palace, was demolished by _Heraclius_; and, as _Cedrinus_ relates, was afterwards cleansed, and rebuilt by Order of _Philip_, King of _Macedon_. Some attest, if not consistently with Truth, yet more appositely, that the Emperor _Anastasius_, when he was expiring at that Place, by a terrible Storm of Wind, Lightning and Thunder, cried out with a loud Voice; _Magnâ perimus aurâ_. _Pulcheria_ the Sister of _Theodosius_ the _Less_, being removed from the Administration of the Government, retired into the _Hepdomum_, and lived privately. _Zonaras_ relates, that _Nicephorus_ the Emperor, surnamed _Phocas_, as he came near to the City, was received by the _Prasine_ Faction, with great Acclamations, and that he was crowned Emperor in the _Hepdomum_ by the _Patriarch_ of _Constantinople_. The Reason why those Suburbs are called the _Hepdomum_, is taken from the Number _Seven_, which was formerly the Number of them. They retained their antient Names, even after they were inclosed within the City. _Procopius_ has it, that _Justinian_, in that _Ward_, which ought to be called the Second, built a Church to St. _Anne_. An unknown Writer of the Empire of _Constantinople_ gives a Reason why it may be called the Second. _In the Place_, says he, _called the_ Second, _there stood the Statue of_ Justinian Rhinometus. Bardus Cæsar Michael, _the Grandfather of_ Theophilus, _demolished and broke it to Pieces_. This Place is called the Second, because when _Justinian_ was banished by _Leo_ the _Patrician_ to _Cherso_, after he had continued there ten Years, he applied himself to _Terbelus_, King of the _Bulgarians_, whose Daughter _Theodora_ he married. The King gave him an Army, which he marched against _Constantinople_ to recover his Empire. But the Inhabitants denying him Entrance, he privately stole into the City through the Passage of an _Aqueduct_ to a Place where was still remaining the Foundation of a Pillar he had set up, and which his Adversary had destroyed. Having recovered his Dominions a second Time, he erected there a second Pillar, and built in the same Place a Church, which was dedicated to St. _Anne_. But, as I observed a little before, _Procopius_ relates, that _Justinian_ built this Church in the second _Ward_, where, I am of Opinion, before the Reign of _Theodosius_ the _Less_, who built the Walls of the City, stood the Suburbs of the seventh Hill, that is, according to _Cedrinus_ and others, in the twelfth _Ward_. There were, say these Writers, most dreadful Earthquakes, which overturned the Wall of the City in the _Exacionion_, and levell’d many beautiful Houses and magnificent Churches in the _Porta Aurea_ of the City; and add that in the second _Ward_, the Shock was felt as far as St. _Anne_’s Church. I mentioned this Observation to many of mine Acquaintance, lest any one should imagine that the δεύτερον χώριον was one of the fourteen _Wards_ mentioned in the