In the foregoing description of S. Irene there is no pretence to an exhaustive statement of facts, or any claim that the conclusions reached are final. There is still too much plaster on the walls to permit a complete examination of the building. But the conclusions here suggested are those which agree best with the evidence which has been brought to light by Mr. George under present circumstances. [Illustration: FIG. 31.] [Illustration: FIG. 32.] [Illustration: FIG. 33.] [Illustration: FIG. 34.] [Illustration: FIG. 35.] [118] Socrates, ii. c. 6; _Corpus juris civilis_, Nov. iii. c. 3. 2; _Itin. russes_, p. 119. [119] Socrates, ii. c. 16. So also the author of the _Vita Pauli Patr. C.P._ The Church of S. Irene, which the Anonymus (Banduri, ii. p. 31) says had once been a heathen temple, was the church of S. Irene, [Greek: to perama]. [120] _Notitia, regia secunda_; Codin. _De aed._ p. 73. [121] Socrates, _loc. cit._ [122] _Ibid._ [123] Banduri, ii. p. 52. [124] Socrates, ii. c. 16. [125] Socrates, ii. c. 16. [126] _Ibid._ ii. 13, 15, 16. [127] _Ibid._ v. 7. [128] _Vita S. Stephani Junioris_, Migne, P.G. 100, col. 1144, [Greek: hê deutera en Kplei en tô naô tês agias Eirênês]. [129] Theodore Lector, ed. Valesius (1748), p. 533. Eutychius afflicted by the divine anger went [Greek: en tô euagei euktêriô entha pepisteutai anapauesthai meros hierôn leipsanôn tôn thespesiôn Pantaleontos kai Marinou, epikaloumenou tou topou Homonoia ek tou ekei sunelthontas tous hekaton pentêkonta episkopous epi Theodosiou tou megalou basileôs]. The passage is preserved in John Damascene, _De imaginibus_, book iii. [130] _Notitia, Regio nona_, 'continet in se ecclesias duas, Cenopolim et Omonaeam.' [131] Banduri, ii. p. 25. [132] _Ad annum_ 478. [133] Procop. _De aed._ i. c. 2; _Pasch. Chron._ p. 622. [134] For this information I am indebted to Mr. W. S. George. [135] Theoph. p. 371. [136] Patr. Nicephorus, _in Breviario_. [137] Theoph. p. 634. [138] Mansi, xv. 211; xvi. p. 18. See _Basile I._ par Albert Vogt, p. 206. [139] Const. Porphyr. _De cer._ p. 186; Cedren. ii. pp. 265, 275, 297. Readers of Russian are referred to D. Belaev. 'The Church of S. Irene and the Earthquake in C.P. 28 June 1894,' _Vizantisky Vreinennik_, i., St. Petersburg, 1894, parts iii.-iv. section iii. pp. 769-798, and the article by the same author on the 'Interior and Exterior View of S. Irene' in the same periodical, 1895, parts i, ii. section i. pp. 177-183. For the references to these articles I am indebted to Mr. Norman E. Baynes, one of our younger Byzantine scholars. [140] Const. Porphyr. _De Cer._ p. 179. [141] Only some of the accents are indicated in the transcription. [142] These openings are now covered with Turkish wooden staging, and the passage is therefore quite dark. [143] _History of the Byzantine Empire_, p. 34, Everyman Edition. CHAPTER V THE CHURCH OF S. ANDREW IN KRISEI, HOJA MUSTAPHA PASHA MESJEDI