There is nothing of the _Zeuxippum_ remaining at present, nor of many other fine _Bagnio’s_, although we have many Inscriptions relating to them; as of that famous one celebrated by _Agathius_, in which _Venus_ is said to have bathed her self; also of another call’d _Didymum_, in which both Sexes used to wash, describ’d in Verse by _Paulus Silentiarius_, and a third made memorable by an Inscription of the learned _Leontius_. Besides these, there was another named _Cupido_, describ’d by the ingenious _Marianus_; yet are all of them either entirely ruin’d, or so defaced by the _Mahometans_, that you cannot discover who built them, or to whom they belong’d. CHAP. VIII. _Of the Hospitals of_ Sampson _and_ Eubulus. _There was built_, as _Procopius_ says, _a Hospital for the Relief of poor and sick People. It was founded in ancient Times by a holy Man, whose Name was_ Sampson. _But it did not escape the Flames, occasion’d by a riotous Mob, which burnt down that and the Church of St._ Sophia. _It was rebuilt by_ Julian, _who beautify’d and enlarged it with a Multitude of small handsome Apartments, and afterwards endow’d it with a yearly Stipend, for the Support and Comfort of the miserable and distressed. But the good Emperor not being content with this Oblation he had made to God, with the Co-assistance of his Imperial Consort_ Theodora, _built over-against it two other Hospitals on the same Ground, where formerly stood the Houses of_ Isidorus _and_ Arcadius. Thus far _Procopius_. From whence I would observe, that the Hospital of _Sampson_ was not far from the Church of St. _Sophia_, and have read in the History of an unknown Author, that it stood over-against it. I am confirm’d in this Opinion by the Authority of _Zonaras_, who tells us in the like Manner, that there was a Fire occasion’d by a Faction, which burnt down the _great Church_, that of St. _Irene_, the Hospital of _Eubulus_, the _Chalca_, the _Bagnio_ of _Severus_, call’d the _Zeuxippum_, and many other Buildings. This is farther attested by _Cedrinus_, who speaking of the same Fire, tells us, _That a great Part of the City, the Churches of St._ Sophia _and St._ Irene, _the Hospitals of_ Sampson _and_ Eubulus, _with the sick People inhabiting them, as also the_ Augustean _Gate-house of the_ Basilica, _the_ Chalca, _the two_ Portico’s, _as far as the_ Forum, _the_ Octogon _and the_ Bagnio _of_ Zeuxippus, _were destroy’d by Fire_. After I had made the former Quotation from the printed Works of _Procopius_, I lighted by chance upon a Manuscript of him, wherein I was inform’d, that the Hospital of _Sampson_ stood between the two Churches of St. _Sophia_ and St. _Irene_. CHAP. IX. _Of the Statue of_ Eudoxia Augusta, _for which St._ Chrysostom _was sent into Banishment_.