by an unknown Author, I have read, that _Eudoxia_ had set up her own Statue, made of massy Silver, in a Place called the _Pyctacium_. If the Author be not mistaken, I should take this to be the same Statue which stood near the Church of St. _Sophia_, by which, as I have shewn before, stood the Statue of _Eudoxia_. I have seen a small _Treatise_ of _Constantinople_, which says, that _Constantine_ the _Great_ built a Church to St. _Euphemia_, near the _Hippodrom_, which was afterwards turned into an Armory by _Constantine_, surnamed _Copronymus_, a professed Adversary to Images in Churches, and who cast the Reliques of St. _Euphemia_ into the Sea. _Suidas_ writes, that the Statue of _Euphemia_ (the Consort of the Emperor _Justin_, who was a _Thracian_) was placed in the Church of St. _Euphemia_, which she her self had built. Some modern Writers say, that in the Time of _Basilius_ the Emperor, there was a great Earthquake which overturned the Church of St. _Polyclete_, and killed all that were in it; and that from that Time it was called _Sigma_. I am more inclined to believe, that it took its Name from a _Portico_ so called, many Ages before this Earthquake, because it was built after the Similitude of the Letter _Sigma_, and is placed in the _antient Description_ of _Constantinople_, in the same _Ward_ with the _Hippodrom_. _Cedrinus_ seems to take Notice of this Place. _They dragged_, says he, Michael _the Emperor in his Monks Habit, by the Heels, out of the Monastery of_ Studius, _through the Market, and leading him beyond the Monastery called_ Periblepton, _in a Place called_ Sigma, _they put out both his Eyes_. The same Author tells us, that _Basilius_ the Emperor, a Native of _Macedon_, rebuilt from the Foundations, a Church to the Honour of the _Blessed Virgin_, which was called _Sigma_. _Chrysaphius Zomas_, an Eunuch, set up the Statue of _Theodosius_ the _Less_, in a Place called _Sigma_. Some Writers affirm, that _Constantine_ the _Great_ built a Church to St. _Stephen_, in a Place called _Sigma_. The _Sigma_ therefore here intended, must needs be another Place in the City, distinct from that which I observed was in the third _Ward_, and ought to be written with the Letter _e_, as _Segma_; by Reason, as I hinted just now, that the Fall of the Church of St. _Polyclete_ by an Earthquake, crushed to Death all that were in it. CHAP. XVI. _Of the Fourth_ Ward.