The Honour and Opulency of this Eunuch appeared in numberless gilded Statues, erected to him in every Part of the City, and the Magnificence and Superiority of the Houses he built, almost in every Street. This so far encouraged and increased the Number of the Eunuchs, that even the Boys affected to be so, that they might become as rich and as honourable as _Eutropius_. The _Basilica_ was so near to the _Miliarium_, and the _Augusteum_, that the Clock made by the Command of the Emperor _Justin_, _Cedrinus_ places in the _Miliarium_, others in the _Forum Augusteum_, and others in the _Basilica_, as is evident from the following Inscription. On the _Basis_ of the Dial over the Arch in the _Basilica_. _This Dial was erected at the Cost Of Prince_ Justinus, _and the fair_ Sophia. _The Scourge of execrable Tyrants he, She the bright Patroness of Liberty. Behold the_ Gnomon _cast in shining Brass, The certain_ Index _of the flying Hours. This was the Invention of the learned_ Julian _An honest, upright, and impartial Lawyer_. CHAP. XX. _Of the Imperial Library, and_ Portico; _as also of the Imperial_ Cistern. The Imperial Palace, says _Zonaras_, stood near the _Basilica_, hard by the Brasiers Shops. The _Basilica_ was furnished with many Volumes, both of human and divine Learning. It was anciently the Mansion House of some Person of distinguished Knowledge, whom they called the President or Master. He had under him twelve Assistants, excellently well skilled in the Art of Reasoning, who were maintained at the publick Charge. They had each of them several Pupils under them, who were instructed in the Methods of Argumentation, and were had in such high Estimation, that upon all important Affairs of State, the Emperors summoned them to Council. In the Reign of _Basilicus_, there happened at _Constantinople_ a great Fire, which begun at, and consumed the Brasiers Shops, with all the adjacent Buildings, burnt down whole Streets; and among other fine Edifices, destroyed the famous _Basilica_, which contained a Library of six hundred thousand Volumes. Among other Curiosities of this Place, was the Gut of a Dragon, a hundred and twenty Foot long, on which were inscribed in Golden Characters the _Iliads_ and _Odysses_ of _Homer_. _Malchus_, a learned _Byzantian_, wrote the History of _Constantinople_, which he brought down from the Reign of _Constantine_, to the Time of _Anastasius_ the Emperor, in which he very passionately laments the burning of the publick Library, and the Statues of the _Forum Augusteum_. _Cedrinus_ speaking of the same Library, gives the same Account of it with _Zonaras_, almost word for word, and adds, _That this Library contain’d the Histories of the Atchievements of the greatest Heroes, in the several Ages of the World_. Many Years after this _Basilica_ was burn’d down, the Emperor _Leo Conon_, the Students vigorously opposing his Heresy, order’d the Palace to be fired, and burnt them, and the