The Cosmidion, now Eyoub, obtained its name from the celebrated Church and Monastery of SS. Cosmas and Damianus in the district. The church was founded by Paulinus, the friend of Theodosius II., and the victim of his jealousy, and is therefore sometimes described as ἐν τοῖς Παυλίνου. It stood on the hill at the head of the Golden Horn, commanding the most beautiful view of the harbour, and constituted, with the walls around it, an acropolis (Procopius, _De Æd._ i. c. 6). It was restored by Justinian the Great, and was famed for miraculous cures. The two saints had been what would now be termed “medical missionaries,” and exercised their art gratuitously; hence, their epithet Ἀνάργυροι (without money). Owing to the strategical position of the monastery, it was frequently seized by assailants of the city, as, for example, by the Avars (_Paschal Chron._, p. 725), and by the rebel Thomas (Theophanes Cont., p. 59). It was granted to Bohemond by Alexius Comnenus, and was consequently known as the Castle of Bohemond (William of Tyre, ii. pp. 84, 85). Andronicus II. Palæologus dismantled the fortress, lest it should be used by the Catalans (Pachymeres, vol. ii. p. 592). Footnote 574: Theophanes, p. 568. Footnote 575: _Ibid._, p. 573. Footnote 576: _Ibid._, p. 592. Footnote 577: Theophanes Cont., pp. 60, 61; Cedrenus, vol. ii. pp. 81-83. Footnote 578: Cedrenus, vol. ii. p. 304; Theophanes Cont., pp. 406-409. Footnote 579: Cedrenus, vol. ii. p. 563. Footnote 580: Anna Comn., ii. p. 104. Footnote 581: _Ibid._, x. p. 48. Footnote 582: For the account of the assault, see Ville-Hardouin, _Conquête de Consple._, c. 35; Nicetas Chon., pp. 719-723; Count Hugo, in _Tafel et Thomas_, p. 309. Footnote 583: Barbaro, pp. 719-722. Footnote 584: Cananus, p. 460; Phrantzes, p. 237; cf. Ducas, p. 263. Footnote 585: Paspates, p. 61. Footnote 586: Cananus, pp. 460, 470, 472; Critobulus, i. c. 27; Phrantzes, p. 237. Footnote 587: Cantacuzene, iv. p. 214: Pusculus, iv. 179. Footnote 588: _Constantinopolis Christiana_, lib. i. c. 15, p. 49. Footnote 589: Banduri, _Imperium Orientale_, lib. vii. p. 150. Footnote 590: Nicetas Chon., p. 529. Footnote 591: Ducas, p. 282. Footnote 592: Page 37. Footnote 593: Cedrenus, vol. i. p. 784; Theophanes, p. 583. Footnote 594: Theophanes, pp. 582, 583. Footnote 595: _Ibid._, _ut supra_. Footnote 596: _Paschal Chron._, p. 720. Footnote 597: Theophanes Cont., p. 340. Footnote 598: _Ad Reg. XIV._ Footnote 599: Ville-Hardouin, c. 33. Footnote 600: _Paschal Chron._, p. 618. Footnote 601: Theophanes Cont., p. 340; Synaxaria, July 29. Footnote 602: _Paschal Chron._, p. 720. Footnote 603: Attaliotes, p. 251. Footnote 604: Cantacuzune, i. pp. 290, 305; iii. p. 501. Footnote 605: John Tzetzes, as quoted by Gyllius and Du Cange, _ut infra_. Footnote 606: III. p. 58. Page 30.