Buildings of his Palace, and in the Middle of all his gilded Roofs, he fix’d a Cross set with several Kinds of the richest Jewels, shining with massy Gold; intimating thereby, that he look’d upon the Cross as the Defence and Bulwark of his Government. St. _Jerome_ tells us, _That he stripp’d almost every City of its Curiosities and Ornaments, to adorn his New_ Rome. _Eusebius_ also mentions the Statues of the _Muses_, which he caused to be fix’d up in his Palace. _Sozomen_ writes, that by the Command of _Constantine_, all that was valuable in the Temples of the Ancients under his Government, and all the brazen Statues of the nicest Workmanship were brought to _Constantinople_, to beautify the City; which, he tells us, remain’d in the publick _Ways_, in the _Hippodrom_, and in the Palace, down to his Time. But not only _Constantine the Great_, but many other Emperors of _Constantinople_ ravaged the whole World for the Decoration of this City. Among these was _Constantine the Third_, the Nephew of _Heraclius_, who plunder’d _ancient Rome_ of all its brazen and Marble Statues, ship’d off all the costly Furniture of their Temples, and made more Havock there in the Space of seven Days, than the _barbarous_ Nations did in the Space of two hundred and fifty Years; for so many Years was the _Roman_ Empire in its Declension before that general Pillage. _Iornandes_, no indifferent Writer of the _Getick_ History, reports, That _Theodorick Prefect_ of _Constantinople_ was adopted, and made Consul by the Emperor _Zeno_, who honour’d him with an _Equestrian_ Statue, which was erected before the Palace. _Tzetzes_, in his _various History_, tells us, that even in his Time, the Head of _Apollo_, made by _Phidias_ in the Likeness of the Sun, remain’d in the Palace. _Suidas_ relates, that the Statue of _Pulcheria_, the Daughter of _Arcadius_, was placed in the _Chalca_, near the Walks of _Ariadne_ the first Wife of _Zeno_, and that the Statues of _Zeno_ himself were set up in the Imperial Gate-house of _Chalca_; as were also two other Statues on foot, erected upon a small Pillar, with Elegies inscrib’d upon them, composed by _Secundus_ the Philosopher. I have seen in the History of no creditable Author, tho’ well known to the People of _Constantinople_, that _Justinian_ erected on the left Side of the _Chalca_, seven Statues in Honour of his Relations, some of Brass, and some of Marble, and that he had also set up two Horses in the Nich before the _Chalca_, as also some gilded Heads of Women, in the frightful Likeness of _Medusa_; I could mention others, but that I do not much depend upon the Authority of the History. _Suidas_ says, that in the _Tribunal_ of the Palace stood the Statues of _Eudoxia_, and her Emperor _Theodosius_; of _Marcian_ and _Constantine_, till the Time of _Heraclius_. CHAP. XIX. _Of the_ Basilica, _and the Imperial Walks_.