The site of the Strategion may be determined thus: It was in the Fifth Region of the city (_Notitia, ad Reg. V._); therefore, either on the northern slope or at the foot of the Second Hill. Its character as the ground for military exercises required it to be on the plain at the foot of the hill. In the Strategion were found the granaries beside the harbour of the Prosphorion (Constant. Porphyr., _De Cerim_, p. 699), near Sirkidji Iskelessi. At the same time, these granaries were near the Neorion (_Bagtchè Kapoussi_), for they were destroyed by a fire which started in the Neorion (_Paschal Chron._, p. 582). Footnote 10: The Chalcoprateia was near the Basilica, or Great Law Courts, the site of which is marked by the Cistern of Yeri Batan Serai (Cedrenus, vol. i. p. 616; cf. Gyllius, _De Top. CP._, lib. ii. c. 20, 21). Zonaras, xiv. p. 1212 (Migne Edition), ἐν τῇ καλουμένῃ βασιλικῇ ἔγγιστα τῶν Χαλκοπρατείων. Footnote 11: See below, p. 256. Footnote 12: See below, the size of city as given by Dionysius Byzantius. Footnote 13: _Anaplus_ of Dionysius Byzantius. Edition of C. Wescher, Paris, 1874. Footnote 14: Dion Cassius, lxxiv. 14; Herodianus, iii. 6. Footnote 15: Beside Bagtchè Kapoussi. See below, p. 220. Footnote 16: I. 1. Footnote 17: Page 96: Καὶ τὸ μὲν παλαιὸν εἶχε τὴν πύλην ἐν τῇ συμπληρώσει τῶν στοῶν ἅς Σεβῆρος ὁ βασιλεὺς ᾠκοδομήσατο. Footnote 18: Zosimus, p. 96: Ἀγορὰν δὲ ἐν τῶ τόπῳ καθ᾽ ὅν ἡ πύλη τὸ ἀρχαῖον ἦν οἰκοδομήσας, ... ἁψίδας δύο μαρμάρου προικοννησίου μεγίστας ἀλλήλων ἀντίας ἀπέτυπωσε, δι᾽ ὧν ἔνεστιν εἰσιέναι εἰς τὰς Σεβῆρου στοὰς, καὶ τῆς πάλαι πόλεως ἐξιέναι. Footnote 19: Theophanes, p. 42, speaking of the column, says it was set up ἀπὸ τοῦ τόπου οὗ ἤρξατο οἰκοδομεῖν τὴν πόλιν, ἐπὶ τὸ δυτικὸν μέρος τῆς ἐπὶ Ῥώμην ἐξιούσης πύλης. Footnote 20: _Fragm. Hist. Græc._, iv. p. 49. Footnote 21: I. p. 14. Footnote 22: Page 41. Footnote 23: _The Church of Sancta Sophia_, pp. 5, 9. Footnote 24: Zosimus, p. 96, Ἀπὸ δὲ τοῦ βορείου λόφου κατὰ τὸν ἴσον τρόπον, κατιὸν ἄχρι τοῦ λιμένος ὅ καλοῦσι νεώριον, καὶ ἐπέκεινα μέχρι θαλάσσης ἥ κατευθὺ κεῖται τοῦ στόματος δι᾽ οὗ πρὸς τὸν Εὔξεινον ἀνάγονται Πόντον. Footnote 25: _Ibid._, Τὸ δὲ τεῖχος διὰ τοῦ λόφου καθιέμενον ἦν ἀπὸ τοῦ δυτικοῦ μέρους ἄχρι τοῦ τῆς Ἀφροδίτης ναοῦ, καὶ θαλάσσης τῆς ἀντικρὺ Χρυσόπολεως. Footnote 26: _Paschal Chron._, p. 495. Footnote 27: Malalas, p. 345. Footnote 28: Page 292. Footnote 29: Hesychius Milesius, _Fragm. Hist. Græc._, iv. p. 149; Codinus, p. 6. Footnote 30: _Notitia, ad Reg. II._; _Paschal Chron._, p. 495. Footnote 31: Zosimus, p. 96. Footnote 32: As the Sphendonè of the Hippodrome was a construction of Constantine the Great, the wall of Severus may, near that point, have stood higher up the hill than is indicated on the Map of Byzantine Constantinople, facing page 19. Footnote 33: