audible human Voice_, Let your Compassion, Royal Sir, be shewn to one whom _Diana_ brought into the World. Teuthras _enraged at this, slew the Creature_. Diana _resenting the Affront, threw the King into a Phrenzy, and punished him with ulcerous Sores. He could not bear the Indignity of his Punishment, and so retired to the Mountains. His Mother_ Lysippa, _immediately, with the Prophet_ Polyidius, _who inform’d her of the Occasion of her Son’s Sufferings, hastens in Search of him, and by sacrificing to_ Diana _some Oxen, reconciles her to him. When she perceiv’d her Son return’d to his Senses, she erected an Altar to_ Diana Orthosia, _and near it placed a Golden Boar, with a Man’s Head upon his Shoulders_. Before the Destruction of _Byzantium_ by _Severus_, both the Altar and the Boar were standing, in the first Valley of the first Hill. Since _Constantine_ rebuilt the City, the first Hill included in it the first _Ward_, which contain’d the House of _Placidia Augusta_, that also of the most noble _Marina_, and the Baths of _Arcadius_. I learn this from the ancient Division of the City into _Wards_, though I must confess myself at a Loss, to know in what Part of the City the first _Ward_ began, nor can I make any such Discovery from the Remains of any ancient Buildings, which are now entirely destroy’d. However, thus much may be inferr’d from _Procopius_, who has it upon Record, that when you sail from the _Propontis_ to the Eastern Part of the City, there stand the publick Baths, built by _Arcadius_. In this Place, says he, _Justinian_ built a Court, which was encompassed with so calm a Sea, that when you walk’d in the Galleries, you might discourse audibly with the Sailors. It made a very beautiful, a very delightful, and most magnificent Prospect: It was fann’d with gentle Breezes, supported with lofty Columns, and laid with the most curious Marble, which like the Sun, reflected a most amazing Lustre: It was also adorn’d with abundance of Marble and brazen Statues, finish’d to the nicest Perfection; a lovely Scene to the Spectators! The Reader, had he seen it, would have taken it to have been the Work of _Phidias_, _Lysippus_, or _Praxiteles_. Upon a high Pillar of _Porphyry_ Marble, in the same Place, stood the Statue of the Empress _Theodora_, addressing herself, as it were, to him for building so noble a Structure. The Beauty of the Column is exceedingly surprising, yet does it by no means come up to that inconceivable inexpressible Gracefulness and Dignity you see in the Statue. From these Words of _Procopius_, as I would observe by the By, that that Pillar now landing upon a Descent, lying Eastward of the _Grand Seignor_’s Palace, is not the same with that upon which _Theodora_ was erected, as some are of Opinion it is; because it is neither of a _Porphyry_ Colour, and is at too remote a Distance form the Court; so would I have the Reader understand, that the first _Ward_ contain’d in