Walls, and by an Edict engraven on a Stone Pillar, and publickly fix’d up in the _Strategium_, near his own _Equestrian_ Statue, order’d it to be called _Nova Roma Constantinopolitana_. Upon a Computation made, that the Natives were not a sufficient Number to people the City, he built several fine Houses in and about the _Forums_, of which he made a Present to the Senators and other Men of Quality, which he brought with him from _Rome_ and other Nations. He built also several _Forums_, some as an Ornament, others for the Service of the City. The _Hippodrom_ he beautify’d with Temples, Fountains, _Portico’s_, and a Senate-House, and allow’d its Members equal Honours and Privileges with those of _Rome_. He also built himself a Palace, little inferior to the Royal one at _Rome_. In short, he was so ambitious to make it rival _Rome_ itself in all its Grandeur and Magnificence, that at length, as _Sozomen_ assures us, it far surpassed it, both in the Number of its Inhabitants, and its Affluence of all Kinds. _Eunapius_ a _Sardian_, no mean Writer, nay though an Enemy to _Constantine_, describes the vast Extent of _Constantinople_, in these Words: _Constantinople_, says he, _formerly called_ Byzantium, _allow’d the ancient_ Athenians _a Liberty of importing Corn in great Quantities; but at present not all the Ships of Burthen from_ Ægypt, Asia, Syria, Phœnicia, _and many other Nations, can import a Quantity sufficient for the Support of those People, whom_ Constantine, _by unpeopling other Cities, has transported thither_. _Zosimus_ also, though otherwise no very good Friend to _Constantine_ on the score of his Religion, yet frankly owns, that he wonderfully enlarged it; and that the _Isthmus_ was enclosed by a Wall from Sea to Sea, to the Distance of fifteen Furlongs beyond the Walls of old _Byzantium_. But to what Extent soever _Constantine_ might enlarge its Bounds, yet the Emperors who succeeded him have extended them farther, and have enclosed the City with much wider Walls than those built by _Constantine_, and permitted them to build so closely one House to another, and that even in their Market Places, that they could not walk the Streets without Danger, they were so crowded with Men and Cattle. Upon this Account it was, that a great part of the Sea which runs round the City was in some Places dry’d up, where by fixing Posts in a circular Manner, and building Houses upon them, they made their City large enough for the Reception of an infinite Multitude of People. Thus does _Zosimus_ express himself as to the vast Extent of this City, as it stood in the Time either of _Arcadius_ or _Theodosius_. _Agathius_ says, that in the Time of _Justinian_ the Buildings were so close and crowded together, that it was very difficult to see the Sky by looking through the Tops of them. The large Compass of this City before _Justinian_’s Time, we may in some measure collect from an _ancient Description of the City_, by an unknown but seemingly a