CONSTANTINE. An Account of his fine Buildings, 23, 24 A Prince of Remarkable Clemency and Goodness, 28 His Military Standard, 183 The Story of his seeing the Cross in the Heavens vindicated, 84 His Coffin, 222 CONSTANTINOPLE, its delightful Situation, 1 Its Strength, 2 Its Commodities, 3 Conveniencies of its Port, 5 Is the Key of the _Mediterranean_ and _Black Sea_, 6 Its choice Wines, 7 Its Timber, 8 Its Fish, 9 Temperature of its Climate, _ibid._ The Disposition of its Inhabitants, 10 The Fortress of all _Europe_, 11 Its Magnificence and vast Extent, 24, 25 Its Figure, 29 Its Compass and Length, 30 Its Breadth, 31 Strength, and Stateliness of its Walls, 67 By whom built and repair’d, 68 Its several Gates, 70 The long Walls of it by whom built, 72 Divided into 14 Wards, 73 CORNICE; this signifies the third, and highest Part of the _Entablature_, 113 CYCLOBION; this was a round Castle in the City, and some time a Palace, 239 CYNEGION; this was the same Kind of Building with the _Theatrum Venatorium_ in antient _Rome_, 244 D. DELPHIC TRIPOS, 111 DENTILS, is a Member of the _Ionic Cornice_, Square, and cut out at proper Distances, which gives it the Form of a Set of Teeth, 242 DICERATON; a Tax laid upon the People for Repairing the Walls of the City, 68 DIGIT; this is a Measure somewhat short of an Inch, 104 DIVAN, it signifies the _Forum Judiciale_ of the _Turks_, 38 E. EMERALD, of a large Size, 160 ENTABLATURE; this Word denotes the three Members of Architecture, _viz._ the _Architrave_, _Frieze_, and _Cornice_, 113 EXACIONION; this was a Place, thro’ which there ran the Land-Wall of the City, 218 EXAMMON _of_ HERACLIUS, or Ἐξάμον. This is a Word which is _Greeciz’d_ from the Latin _Examen_, and signifies a Standard Measure appointed by that Emperour, 141 F. FACTIONS. These were Company of Chariot-racers. There were four Companies of them at Old _Rome_. At _Constantinople_, (as far as I have observ’d, or at least not mention’d by _Gyllius_) but only One, which was called the _Prasine Faction_, because they wore a _Green_ Livery. The Word _Prasine_ is deriv’d from Πράσον, a _Leek_, 116, 117 FASCIAE. These are three _Bands_ in Architecture, of which the _Architrave_ is compos’d, 242 FRIEZE. The round Part of the _Entablature_, which is between the _Architrave_, and the _Cornice_, 253 Forum of _Arcadius_, 257 Of _Augustus_, 83 Of _Constantine_, 171 _Cupedinis_, 153 Of _Honorius_, 275 _Forum Pistorium_, 195 _Forum Prætorianum_, or the Court of Publick Justice, 170 _Forum_ in the _Taurus_, and the _Forum_ of _Theodosius_, 169 G. GALATA, now called _Sycæ_ and _Pera_, its Situation, 264 GATES, of _Constantinople_, 70