_Suidas_ writes, that the _Xerolophon_ was formerly call’d _Thema_, because it was a kind of Repository, and contained in it fifteen winding Apartments, the Statue of _Diana_, and _Severus_, who built it; besides a _Thermation_, a _Tripos_ from whence many Oracles were deliver’d. In this Place, the Founder of it us’d to offer Sacrifices; and among others he sacrificed a Virgin. _Priscian_, whom I find mention’d by _Benedictus Ægius_, indefatigably curious in his Search of Antiquity, observes, That the _Azoles_ sometimes inserted in a Word the Letter Ϝ, as I have taken Notice of in some Inscriptions of a very antient _Tripos_ of _Apollo_, still remaining in the _Xerolophon_; the Words of which are written after this Manner; Δημοφάϝων, Λαϝονάϝων. He tells us, that ’tis customary in another Place, meaning among the _Æolians_, to place an Ϝ between two Vowels of the same Word; as in ὄϝις, _ovis_, Δάϝος, _Davus_, ὦϝον, _ovum_. I have seen, says he, the same in some old Inscriptions, in very antient Characters, on some _Tripos’s_, especially on the _Tripos_ of _Apollo_, which is at _Constantinople_; as Δημοφόϝων for Δημοφόων, Λαϝοκόϝων for Λαοκόων. Others add, that there were the like Insertions in the _Xerolophon_, a little above the _Basis_ of the Pillars of _Marcian_, _Valentinian_, and _Theodosius_ the _Less_. _Zonaras_ tells us, that _Simeon_, a Prince of the _Bulgarians_, a Man of a cruel and turbulent Spirit, march’d an Army against the _Chrobatians_; when he was conquer’d, and lost his Army, partly by the Badness of the Roads, some Body inform’d the Emperor that the Statue plac’d above the Arch in the _Xerolophon_, looking Westward, was carv’d for the Statue of _Simeon_ of _Bulgaria_, and that if any one cut off the Head of the Statue, _Simeon_ should immediately die. The Emperor commands the Head of the Statue to be chopt off, and soon received the News that _Simeon_ was dead of a violent Pain of the Stomach. For he watch’d to a Minute the Time of his Death. As to the Port of _Theodosius_, that was in the same Place where the Gardens, which are now call’d the _Blancha_, stand at present. These Gardens are enclos’d with a Wall, and are seated in a Plain, adjoyning to the Shore of the _Propontis_, at the Foot of the sixth Hill. The Mouth of the Port stood Eastward, from whence the Pier extended it self Westward, in a direct Line, where at present stand the Walls of the City. The Pier was twelve Foot in Thickness; and, as I found by walking it, ’twas six Hundred of my Paces in length. ’Tis now entirely ruin’d. The Gardens, which are very spacious, abound with Sallets and Potherbs, but have very few Fruit-Trees. These Gardens are water’d with Pools, which they have within them, and which are the Remains of the old Port. I discover’d by the Pier, and Situation of the Place, that ’twas above a Mile in compass. In the Mouth of the Port, not altogether unfit for Ships at present, without the City