him, and called him an Apostate from the Christian Religion. _Julian_ in Return, called him a blind old Fellow, adding sarcastically this Question; _Is your God, the Galilean, able to cure you?_ For thus, by Way of Contempt, he used to call our Saviour. Upon which the good old Bishop replied, _I thank my God, who has taken my Sight from me, so that I cannot behold the Man who is fallen into so great an Apostacy_; upon which _Julian_ was silent. _Zonaras_, and some Historians who lived before him, have recorded, That in the Time of _Anastasius_, the Statue of _Fortune_, made in Brass, stood with one Foot in a brazen Ship, and was placed in some Part of the City; but that when this Ship began to decay with Age, or some Parts of it were stolen, or shattered by Treachery, it happened, that no Ships of Burthen came into the Port of _Constantinople_, but that upon their Arrival near the City, a Storm prevented their coming into Harbour; and if their Cargo was taken aboard the Long-boats, and brought into the City, they tell you it was soon consumed, by Reason of the Scarcity, which then prevailed. Upon this, the _Curatores_ of the City were obliged to enquire into the Reason of it. When the Magistrates of the City, upon Information, began to suspect the Cause, they found, upon Enquiry, the Fragments of the Ship, which were fitted to their proper Places, when on a sudden, Navigation was open and free, and the Sea was constantly full of Vessels sailing into the Port. And that they might fully discover the real Cause of this Calamity, they repeated the Experiment, by stripping the Ship again of some Pieces of it, and the Ships coming into Harbour, were prevented as before; so they repaired the brazen Vessel she stood in, and took a particular Care of it. _Eunapius_, who wrote the _History of the Lives of the Philosophers and wise Men_, says, that in the Reign of _Constantine_, the Inhabitants attributed this Difficulty of coming into Harbour to another Cause. _There was no entring the Port at_ Constantinople, says he, _unless the Wind stood full South. When this had frequently happened, the People, oppressed with Famine, assembled in the Theatre, enraged at_ Constantine. _The Chief of the Courtiers having conceived a Resentment against_ Sopatrus _the Philosopher, brought him before the Emperor, and impeached him in the following Manner: This_ Sopatrus, _Sir, who is so high in your Favour, has by his excessive Wisdom chained up the Winds, for which you so far admire him, as to admit him too near your Imperial Person_. _Constantine_, believing the Allegations, ordered him to be beheaded. CHAP. XXIV. _Of the Temple of_ Neptune, _of the Church of St._ Mina, (_or_ Menna) _of the_ Stadia, _and the Stairs of_ Timasius.