The _Basilica_, which, as I observed before, stood in the _Forum Augusteum_, had four Arches, as appears from the ancient following Inscriptions on them. Upon an Arch in the _Basilica_ of _Byzantium_. _Great_ Theodore, _who beautify’d the City With four extensive Arches, highly merits The Government of four Imperial Cities_. And on another Part of the same Arch: _You_, Theodorus, _with surprizing Art, Once_ Consul, _and thrice_ Prefect _of the City, Adorn’d this shining Fane with lofty Pillars, Sacred to_ Fortune, _Goddess of the City_. _Calliades_, General of the _Byzantian_ Army, plac’d the Statues of _Byzas_ and _Phidalia_ in the _Basilica_, with this Inscription upon them: Calliades _erected here the Statues Of_ Byzas, _and his lov’d_ Phidalia. And on the Statue of _Phidalia_: _This is the Statue of the fair_ Phidalia _Young_ Byzas’ _Wife, the Work of_ Bupalus. _Pliny_, among other Statuaries, mentions _Anthermus_ of _Chios_, and his Sons _Biopalus_ and _Anthermus_. _Dionysius_, a Native of _Byzantium_ writes, that _Byzas_, from whom _Byzantium_ took its Name, was the Husband of _Phidalia_, from whom the Port of the _Bosporus_ took the Name of the Port of _Phidalia_, of which I have wrote more largely in my _Treatise of the Bosporus_. _Suidas_, and some modern Writers say, that in the _Basilica_, behind the _Miliarium Aureum_, there was a gilded Statue in the Likeness of a Man, where was also the _Exammon_ of _Heraclius_, and the Statue of _Justin_ the Emperor in a kneeling Posture. _Terbelis_ is said to have preached in the same Place. Here was also placed by the Order of _Severus_, the Figure of a large Elephant, upon the following Occasion: That an Elephant being stabled near it, and the House of a Silver-Smith, who worked in Plate, being robbed, he suspecting the Keeper of the Elephant to be the Thief, threatned him with Death, unless he would move his Station; and the Fellow bidding him Defiance, he slew him, and threw him to the Elephant, at which the Beast being enraged, killed his Keeper’s Murderer. _Severus_ being acquainted with the Fact, offered Sacrifices to the Elephant, commanded him and his Keeper to be cast in Brass, and set up here; where also, as _Suidas_ relates, was the Statue of _Hercules_, to which the _Byzantians_ paid divine Adoration, and offered Sacrifice. Afterwards, in the _Consulship_ of _Julian_, it was moved into the _Hippodrom_; but was originally, with ten other Statues, brought from _Old Rome_, partly by Sea, and partly by Land Carriage. Thus it was that _Hercules_, living and dead, travelled the greatest Part of the World. _Suidas_ writes, that in the Imperial Walks were placed the _Equestrian_ Statues of _Trajan_, _Theodosius_, _Valentinian_, _Gibbus_, and _Firmillianus_ the Buffoon. There were many other Statues of Emperors and Eunuchs set up in this Place, the most famous of which was the Statue of _Eutropius_, who was Chamberlain to the Emperor _Arcadius_.