In a copy of the Anonymus, Codex Colbertinus, made in the thirteenth century, the copyist, under the heading Περὶ τὸν Σοφιανῶν λιμένα, adds the note that the harbour εἰς τὸ Κοντοσκάλον was constructed by Justin, and had been deepened and surrounded by a remarkable enclosure in his own day by Andronicus Comnenus Palæologus. See Banduri, _Imperium Orientale_, vol. ii. pp. 678-680. The copyist is at fault in identifying the Harbour of Sophia with the Kontoscalion, which was a historical question, but he may be trusted in regard to the restoration of the Kontoscalion, which was a contemporary event. Footnote 1110: Vol. i. p. 365. Footnote 1111: See below, pp. 312, 313. Footnote 1112: _Ad Reg. XII._ Footnote 1113: Anonymus, iii. p. 46. Footnote 1114: _Ibid._, p. 47. Footnote 1115: Lib. iii. p. 46; cf. _ibid._, p. 45. Footnote 1116: Anonymus, iii. p. 46. Footnote 1117: Anonymus, iii. p. 46. Footnote 1118: From _Broken Bits of Byzantium_. (By kind permission of Mrs. Walker.) Footnote 1119: Lib. iii. p. 46. Footnote 1120: Gyllius, _De Top. CP._, iii. c. viii.; iv. c. viii. According to this authority the circuit of the harbour was over a mile; the mole being 600 paces long and 12 feet broad. Footnote 1121: Gyllius, _ut supra_. “Cujus ostium vergebat ad solis ortum æstivum, a quo moles extendebatur ad occasum æstivum, supra quam nunc muri adstricti existunt.” “In faucibus portus, adhuc navium capacibus, extra murum urbis, etiamnum videtur turris undique mari circumdata, et saxa, reliquæ ruinarum.” Grelot, in his _Relation Nouvelle d’un Voyage de Constantinople_, pp. 79, 80, refers to the tower thus (to quote the quaint English translation of his work by J. Philips, London, 1683, p. 68): “Going by sea from the Seven Towers to the Seraglio, you meet with a square tower upon the left hand, that stands in the sea, distant from the city wall about twenty paces. The inhabitants of the country call it Belisarius Tower, affirming that it was in this tower where that great and famous commander, for the recompense of all those signal services which he had done the Emperor Justinian, in subduing his enemies, as well in Asia and Africa as in Europe, being despoyled of all his estate and honour, and reduced to the extremity of necessity, after he had endured putting out both his eyes, was at length shut up and forced for his subsistence to hang out a bag from the grate of his chamber, and cry to the passengers, ‘Give poor Belisarius a farthing, whom envy and no crime has deprived of his eyes.’ Near to the place where stands this tower was formerly the harbour where Theodosius, Arcadius, and their successors kept their galleys.” Footnote 1122: From _Broken Bits of Byzantium_. (By kind permission of Mrs. Walker.) Footnote 1123: Nicetas Chon., p. 733. Footnote 1124: Nicetas Chon., p. 170. Footnote 1125: