TRICLINIUM; this was a place of Publick Entertainment, and was many Times a very sumptuous Building most beautifully adorn’d, 162 The great _Triclinium_ built by _Anastasius_, 246 The _Triclinium_ of _Magnaura_, 239 TRIPOS of _Apollo_; this _Tripos_ was set upon a brazen Pillar made of three Serpents entwin’d, which was about fifteen Foot high, according to _Tournefort_. See the Cut of the _Serpentine_ Pillar, 112 TURKS; their Way of building Pillars, 188 V. VESTIBULE, or VESTIBULUM; a House of Entrance into a Church, or any great Building, 133 VOLUTÆ. The Word signifies _wreath’d_, and is that Part of the _Capitals_, of the _Ionic_, _Corinthian_, and _Composite_ Orders, which is suppos’d to represent the Bark of Trees twisted, 119 W. WALLS of _Constantinople_, 72 WALKS Imperial, 142 X. XEROLOPHON; this Word signifies a _dry Unction_, and the Place was call’d so, because whoever was anointed there never us’d to bath, 259 _FINIS._ [Illustration: Page Decoration] A DESCRIPTION Of the CITY of CONSTANTINOPLE, As it stood in the REIGNS of ARCADIUS and HONORIUS. Published from the _Notitia Utriusque Imperii_. WITH PANCIROLUS’_s_ NOTES. ——_Vestigia retrò Observata sequor._—— VIR. ÆN. II. [Illustration: Page Decoration] _LONDON_: Printed in the Year MDCCXXIX. [Illustration: Page Header Decoration] A DESCRIPTION Of the WARDS of CONSTANTINOPLE. The first _Region_, or _Ward_. _The first_ Ward _contains in it, the House of_ Placidia Augusta; _the House of the most illustrious_ Marina; _the_ Bagnio’s _of_ Arcadius; _twenty nine Streets; an Hundred and eighteen large Houses; two_ Portico’s _of a great Length; fifteen private_ Bagnio’s; _four publick, and fifteen private Mills; and four_ Gradus. _It was governed by one_ Curator, _who had under his Charge, the whole_ Ward. _There was also one_ Vernaculus, _who was Messenger of the_ Ward, _was also Assistant to him, and entirely at his Command. It had also twenty five_ Collegiati, _chosen out of the several Bodies of Tradesmen, whose Office it was to direct and assist in Cases of Fire. There were also five_ Vico-Magistri, _whose Business it was to watch the City by Night_. * * * * * Thus far my Author. I shall here add a Remark made by _Gyllius_, it not being foreign to our Purpose, _viz._ That those whom _P. Victor_ and _S. Rufus_, believed to have been called the _Denunciatores_ in antient _Rome_, here in new _Rome_, he calls _Vernaculi_. Neither of them mention the _Collegiati_, tho’ all Historians take Notice of the _Vico-Magistri_, who with more Propriety of the _Latin_ Tongue, should rather have been called _Vicorum Magistri_, as appears, he tells us, by an Inscription yet remaining in the Capitol of _Old Rome_, which is as follows.