surprized at the Death of_ Imerius, _and the Fall of the Pillar, a certain Philosopher named_ Johannes, _told ’em, that he had discovered from a small Animal, that a Man of some Note should dye_. Philip _of_ Macedon _believing him, ordered the little Creature to be bury’d in the Place, where this Accident happened_. _Justinus_ the _Third_ commanded _Tiberius_ and _Leontius_, after they had reign’d three Years, to have their Chains taken off, ty’d Body to Body, dragged thro’ the _Forum_ and the _Theatre_ by Horses; and after he had trampled upon the Necks of them, he ordered them to be slain in the _Cynegion_, in the Sight of the People. I look upon this _Theatre_ to be that which was called _Theatrum Venatorium_. For as there was such a _Theatre_ at _Rome_, so there was at _Constantinople_. For _Procopius_ reports, that the _Theatres_, _Hippodroms_, and the _Cynegia_, were greatly neglected, and fell to Ruine, thro’ the Avarice of _Justinian_. CHAP. V. _Of the_ Blachernæ, _the_ Triclinium _of the_ Blachernæ, _the_ Palace, _the_ Aqueduct _and many other Places of Antiquity_. The Author of the Book entitled, _The antient Description of the_ Wards attests, that there stood in the fourteenth _Ward_, a Church, but does not name it; nor does he take Notice of the _Blachernæ_, although it was called so before the taking of _Constantinople_ by _Severus_, as I shall immediately make appear. The _Blachernæ_ stood without the Walls, not only in the Time when that Book was wrote, but even in the Reign of _Justinian_, who, as _Procopius_ writes, built a Church, which he dedicated to the _Virgin Mary_, before the Walls of the City, in a Place called the _Blachernæ_. _The Spectator_, says he, _when he enters this Church, will admire its large and bulky Building, yet secure from the Danger of falling by the Strength of its Foundation. You may behold in it_, adds he, _a stately Magnificence, without any Mixture of Gaiety, and too much Embellishment_. ’Tis my Opinion, that _Justinian_ only repaired this Church: For _Zonaras_ reports, that _Pulcheria_, the Wife of _Marcian_, built a Church in the _Blachernæ_, and dedicated it to the _Virgin Mary_. _Pomponius Lætus_ tells us, that this Church was built by _Theodosius_. _Cedrinus_ writes, that _Justin_ the Nephew of _Justinian_, added two Arches to the Church in the _Blachernæ_. So that ’tis plain from what _Procopius_ has wrote upon this Occasion, that the _Blachernæ_ stood without the Walls of the City, as it is no less evident from the Testimony of _Agathius_. _When the barbarous Nations_, says he, _approached_ Constantinople, _by the Permission of_ Justinian, _all the Churches situate without the Walls, from the_ Blachernæ _to the Black-Sea, were stripp’d of their Armaments, which were kept within the City_. There is at present to be seen, near the Gate called _Xylon_, and the Western Angle of the City, between the Foot of the sixth Hill, and the turning of a Mosque, situate within