The _Architraves_ over the _Capitals_ of the lower Range are finished with the nicest Art. There is a noble Piece of Sculpture in this Church. ’Twas done by _Zoophorus_, who has carved round the Church some _Greek_ Verses, in the largest Characters. The Tops of the _Pilasters_ are shaded with a _Vineal Foliage_, intermixed with cluster’d Grapes, which denote, that the Church was dedicated to _Bacchus_. CHAP. XV. _Of the Port of_ Julian, _and_ Sophia; _of the_ Portico _nam’d_ Sigma, _and the Palace of_ Sophia. Near the Church of _Bacchus_, stood the Port of _Julian_. This is plain from the Account we have of the Fire, which happen’d in the Reign of _Leo_ the _Great_, and as _Evagrius_ tells us, began on the North-side of the City, and destroy’d all before it, from the _Bosporian_ Port, to the old Temple of _Apollo_; and that on the South-side of the City, it made the same Havock from the Port of _Julian_, to the Houses near the Temple of _Concord_. _Zonaras_ writes, who has described the Devastations of that Fire, that it burnt with great Fury from the _Bosporium_ to the Church of St. _John_ the _Calybite_, and on the South from the Church of St. _Thomas_ to the Church of the renowned Martyrs, _Sergius_ and _Bacchus_. The Church of St. _Thomas_ stood near the Temple of _Concord_. The Account which _Cedrinus_ gives of this Fire is, that it took its Course round the City quite from the Northern to the Southern Shore, as far as the Church of _Sergius_ and _Bacchus_. The Emperor _Anastasius_ fortified the Port of _Julian_, and secured it by a strong Wall. It was afterwards called the Port of _Sophia_, according to _Cedrinus_, who writes, _That_ Justin _the Nephew of_ Justinian, _built a Palace in the Port of_ Julian, _which he ordered to be cleansed, and that he commanded his own, and the Statue of_ Sophia _his Consort to be erected there, and from thence gave it the Name of the Port_ of Sophia. The Inscription on the Statue of _Justin_ placed here is as follows: _I_ Theodorus, _Prefect of the City, Here, on the Shore, erect this lofty Statue; It represents the Emperor_ Justinus. _May his kind Presence guard, and ever shed Its peaceful Influence o’er the neighbouring Ports._