SOCRATES and _Sozomen_, Writers of sacred History, tells us, that a Silver Statue of _Eudoxia Augusta_ was erected upon a _Porphyry_ Pillar on the South Side of the Church of St. _Sophia_, though at some Distance from it, near the _Senate-House_. The People commonly paid their Homage and Acclamations to this Statue. There were publick Entertainments of Dancing, and other mimical Gestures acted before it, according to a Custom which had long prevail’d, of paying Adoration to the Images of Princes. St. _Chrysostom_ reflecting upon this Practice, as contrary to the Precepts of the Christian Religion, publickly condemn’d it in a _Sermon_. _Eudoxia_ believing her self to be closely struck at in that Discourse, banish’d him. I should here take Notice of the _Miliarium_ and the _Basilica_, as being near the Church of St. _Sophia_, but then I shall invert the Method I proposed to observe. CHAP. X. _Of those Parts of the City which are contain’d in the third_ Ward. The third _Ward_ is discover’d to have been that Space of Ground upon which stood the _Hippodrom_, the House of _Abraham Bassa_, the Gate of _Leo_, and the Haven which the Inhabitants call the _Caterga Limena_, where the Three-oar’d Galleys used to anchor, and so on to the Top of the second Hill, as far as the _Forum_ of _Constantine_. I made this Observation, not only from the Order the _Wards_ stand in, but also from the Treatise of the _Description of the Wards_, which says, that the third _Ward_, at the Entrance of it, is a Level Ground, but in the most remote Part of it, it descends with too great a Declivity into the Sea, and contains the Tribunal of the _Forum_ of _Constantine_, the _Circus Maximus_, the House of _Pulcheria Augusta_, the new Port, and the semicircular _Portico_, made after the Figure of an old _Greek Sigma_. CHAP. XI. _Of the_ Hippodrom, _its_ Obelisk, _its_ Statues, _and_ Columns.