The Antiquities of Constantinople: With a Description of Its Situation, the Conveniencies of Its Port, Its Publick Buildings, the Statuary, Sculpture, Architecture, and Other Curiosities of That CityGilles, Pierre
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The Antiquities of Constantinople: With a Description of Its Situation, the Conveniencies of Its Port, Its Publick Buildings, the Statuary, Sculpture, Architecture, and Other Curiosities of That City
Gilles, Pierre
Istanbul (Turkey) -- Antiquities; Istanbul (Turkey) -- Description and travel; Turkey -- Antiquities
_Eight_ Bagnio’s.] _Victor_ writes, that at _Rome_ there were eleven.
_Two_ Basilica’s.] There were ten of them at _Rome_.
_Four_ Fora’s.] At _Rome_ there were eleven; _Victor_ says nineteen.
_Two Senate-Houses._] At _Rome_, as _Victor_ says, there were three;
one stood between the _Capitol_, and the _Forum Romanum_, where was the
Temple of _Concord_; another by the _Porta Capena_, and a third in the
Temple of _Bellona_, which stood in the _Circo_ of _Flaminius_, where
the Foreign Ambassadors resided, because they would not allow them
Admittance into the City.
_Five Granaries._] At _Rome_ there were two hundred and ninety two.
_Two Theatres._] At _Rome_ there were three.
_Two_ Lusoria.] At _Rome_, according to _Victor_, there were sixteen.
_Four Havens._] At _Rome_ there was but one.
_One_ Circo.] At _Rome_ there were two.
_Four Cisterns._] At _Rome_ there were none.
_Four_ Nymphea.] At _Rome_ there were fifteen.
_Three hundred and twenty two Streets._] At _Rome_ four Hundred and
twenty four.
_Four Thousand three hundred and eighteen large Houses._] At _Rome_
there were forty six Thousand six hundred and two _Insulæ_, and one
Thousand seven hundred and eighty large Houses. The Houses here
mentioned were large roof’d Buildings, tyl’d at Top four Ways; the
_Insulæ_ were roof’d Buildings, tyl’d only before and behind.
_Forty two_ Portico’s.] At _Rome_ there were six only.
_A hundred and fifty three private Baths._] At _Rome_ there were eight
hundred and fifty six.
_Twenty publick, and a hundred and twenty private Mills._] At _Rome_
two hundred and fifty four.
_A hundred and seventeen_ Gradus.] At _Rome_ none.
_Five Flesh-Markets._] At _Rome_ two only.
_Five hundred and sixty_ Collegiati.] It is apparent that thirty seven
of them are omitted in the last _Ward_. There was no such Office at
_Rome_, yet there were, instead of them, Watchmen divided into seven
Companies, whose Business, according to _Dion_ and _Suetonius_, was
much the same with that of the _Collegiati_.
_Sixty five_ Vico-magistri.] It should be read seventy; for five
of them are omitted in the last _Ward_. At _Rome_ the Number of
_Collegiati_ was six hundred and seventy two.
_A Porphyry Pillar._] There was no such Pillar, as _Cedrinus_ says,
at _Rome_, tho’ this was brought from thence. _Gyllius_ writes, that
this Pillar was made of square marble Stones, and that it stood in the
_Hippodrom_.
_Two Pillars with Winding-Stairs in the Inside of them._] There was the
same Number at _Rome_.
_One_ Colossus.] At _Rome_ there were two. ’Tis omitted in the
_Description of the Wards_, as many other Things of Note are.
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