The Plates of Brass did not reflect so strong a Lustre as pure Gold, yet was it, in Value, little inferior to Silver. On the Top of the Statue was set a large Horse in Brass, facing the East, which indeed afforded a noble Prospect. He seemed to be in a marching Posture, and struggling for Speed. His near Foot before was curvated, as though he would paw the Ground; his off Foot was fixed to the _Pedestal_, and his hind Feet were so contracted, as though he was prepared to be gone. Upon the Horse was placed the Statue of the Emperor. ’Twas made of Brass, large like a _Colossus_, dress’d in a warlike Habit like _Achilles_, with Sandals on his Feet, and armed with a Coat of Mail, and a shining Helmet. He looked Eastward, and seemed to be marching against the _Persians_. In his left Hand he bore a Globe, devised to signify his universal Power over the whole World. On the Top of it was fixed a Cross, to which he attributed all his Successes in War, and his Accession to the Imperial Dignity. His right Hand was stretched to the East, and by pointing with his Fingers, he seemed to forbid the barbarous Nations to approach nearer, but to stand off at their Peril. _Tzetzes_, in his _Various History_, describes what kind of Helmet he had upon his Head. _The_ Persians, says he, _generally wore a Turbant upon the Head. When the_ Romans _obtained any Victory over them, they plundered them of these Turbants, which they placed upon their own Heads. They are_, says he, _of the same Shape with that, with which the Statue of_ Justinian, _erected upon a large Pillar, is crowned_. _Cedrinus_ relates, that _Justinian_ held the Globe in his Silver Hand. _Zonaras_ writes, that _Justinian_, in the seventeenth Year of his Reign, set up this Pillar, in the same Place, where formerly had stood another Pillar of _Theodosius_ the _Great_, bearing his Statue in Silver, made at the Expence of his Son _Arcadius_, which weighed seven Thousand four Hundred Pounds. When _Justinian_ had demolished the Statue and the Pillar, he stripped it of a vast Quantity of Lead, of which he made Pipes for _Aqueducts_, which brought the Water into the City. This ill Treatment of _Theodosius_ by _Justinian_, was revenged upon him by the _Barbarians_; for they used his Pillar in the same Manner, and stripped it of the Statue, the Horse, and the Brass wherewith it was covered, so that it was only a bare Column for some Years. About thirty Years ago the whole _Shaft_ was taken down to the _Pedestal_, and that, about a Year since, was demolished down to the _Basis_, from whence I observed a Spring to spout up with Pipes, into a large Cistern. At present there stands in the same Place a Water-House, and the Pipes are enlarged. I lately saw the _Equestrian_ Statue of _Justinian_, erected upon the Pillar which stood here, and which had been preserved a long Time in the Imperial Precinct, carried into the melting Houses, where they cast their Ordnance.