they threw down Statues and Horses upon the Heads of their Enemies. At last their Provision being entirely spent, they took up with Hydes soften’d in Water; and these being gone, they were brought to the extreme Necessity of eating one another: At last, being wholly reduced by Famine, they were forced to a Surrender. The _Romans_ gave no Quarter to the Soldiers, nor the principal Men of the City. The whole Town, with all its stately Walls in which it glory’d, was levelled with the Ground; and all its _Theatres_ and _Bagnio’s_ were demolish’d even to the small Compass of a single Street. _Severus_ was highly pleased with so noble a Conquest. He took away the Freedom of the City, and having deprived it of the Dignity of a Commonwealth, he confiscated the Goods of the Inhabitants; and afterwards making it tributary, he gave it, with all the neighbouring Countrey, into the Hands of the _Perinthians_. Entering the City afterwards, and seeing the Inhabitants coming to meet him, with Olive-branches in their Hands begging Quarter, and excusing themselves for making so long a Defence, he forbore the Slaughter; yet left the _Perinthians_ in the Possession of the Town, allowing them nevertheless a Theatre, gave Orders for building them a _Portico_ for Hunting, and a _Hippodrom_, to which he adjoin’d some _Bagnio’s_, which he built near the Temple of _Jupiter_, who was called _Zeuxippus_. He also rebuilt the _Strategium_; and all the Works that were begun by _Severus_ in his Life-time, were finish’d by his Son _Antoninus_. CHAP. II. _Of the Extent of Old_ Byzantium.