Footnote 1009: The palace stood on a terraced platform, the area of which was some 200 by 175 feet. See Map facing p. 269. Footnote 1010: From _Broken Bits of Byzantium_. (By kind permission of Mrs. Walker.) Footnote 1011: See above, p. 269. Anna Comnena (iii. p. 137) speaks of a lower and a higher palace, Ἐν τῷ κάτω παλατίῳ: εἰς τὸ ὑπερκείμενον παλάτιον. Footnote 1012: Procopius, _De Æd._, i. c. iv.; Bondelmontius, _Librum Insularum_, p. 121. Footnote 1013: Labarte, _Le Palais Imperial de Consple._, pp. 208-210. Footnote 1014: Lib. i. p. 9. Footnote 1015: Lib. iii. p. 42; cf. Codinus, p. 125. Footnote 1016: Lib. iii. p. 45. Footnote 1017: Codinus, p. 87. Footnote 1018: _Imperium Orientale_, vol. ii. pp. 678, 679. Footnote 1019: _Le Palais Imperial de Consple._, pp. 208, 209. Footnote 1020: See below, p. 290. Footnote 1021: _Fragm. Hist. Græc._, vol. iv. p. 107. Footnote 1022: Page 700. Footnote 1023: From _Broken Bits of Byzantium_. (By kind permission of Mrs. Walker.) Footnote 1024: Procopius, _De Æd._, i. c. iv. Footnote 1025: Procopius, _De Æd._, i. c. iv. Footnote 1026: Translation by R. Payne Smith, p. 179. Footnote 1027: _De Cer._, p. 601. Footnote 1028: Theophanes Cont., p. 22; Cedrenus, vol. ii. p. 49. Footnote 1029: Theophanes, p. 456. May David, however, in opposition to the view of Du Cange, adopted in the text, not have been Keeper of the Archives of SS. Sergius and Bacchus? Footnote 1030: Against this view it may be objected that the Anonymus ascribes the Palace of the Bucoleon to Theodosius II. But the authority of the Anonymus on points of history is not very great. Or, it may be held, that the palace was founded by Theodosius II., and that the name Bucoleon was given to it later. Footnote 1031: Zosimus, ii. pp. 92, 93; iii. pp. 140, 158. Footnote 1032: Procopius, _De Æd._ i. c. iv. Footnote 1033: _John of Ephesus_, translation by R. Payne Smith, pp. 179, 180. Footnote 1034: John of Antioch, _Fragm. Hist. Græc._, vol. iv. p. 107. Footnote 1035: Theophanes Cont., p. 447. Footnote 1036: Nicetas Chon., iii. p. 149. Footnote 1037: Leo Diac., iv. p. 63-65. Footnote 1038: _Ibid._, iv. p. 64; Cedrenus, vol. ii. 369, 370; Zonaras, xvi. c. xxvi. p. 123. The last author describes the work thus: Τῷ νῦν ὁρωμένῳ τείχει τὰ βασίλεια ἐστεφάνωσεν. Ἄκροπολιν δ᾽ οἱ πολίται τοῦτο καὶ τυραννεῖον καθ᾽ ἑαυτῶν γινόμενον ἔκρινον. Footnote 1039: _Ibid._, iv. p. 64, Περίβολον ἐκ τοῦ θατέρου μέρους τοῦ πρὸς θάλατταν ἐπικλινοῦς τῶν ἀνακτόρων τειχίζειν ἀρξάμενος, κατὰ θάτερον πρὸς θάλατταν συνεπέρανε, καὶ τεῖχος, τὸ νῦν ὁρώμενον ὑψηλόν τε καὶ ὀχυρὸν ἐδομήσατο, καὶ τὴν βασίλειον ἑστίαν ὡς ὑπετόπαζεν, ἠσφαλίσατο. Not, as Schlumberger supposes, from the Golden Horn to the Sea of Marmora, across the promontory (_Un Empereur Byzantin au Dixième Siècle_, p. 544). Footnote 1040: