In keeping with such practices, when the Icon of St. Demetrius was transported from Thessalonica to Constantinople, in the reign of Manuel Comnenus, to be placed in the Church of the Pantocrator (now Zeirek Klissè Djamissi, above Oun Kapan Kapoussi), members of the Senate and a vast multitude of priests, monks, and laymen, went seven miles from the capital to receive the sacred picture and escort it with great pomp to its destination.[1304] Footnote 1184: A station, eleven miles from Turin, on the line of railway between that city and Milan, _viâ_ Vercelli, retains in its name, Settimo, the reminiscence of its ancient designation, ad Septimum. Footnote 1185: In his annotations to Ammianus Marcellinus. The arguments of Valesius were unknown to me when I adopted the correct view on the subject. It was startling to find, afterwards, that the truth had been established so long ago by substantially the same evidence as convinced my own mind, and that truth so well established had been ignored. My reasons for dissenting from the views of Gyllius and Du Cange were first published in the _Levant Herald_, April 12, 1891. Footnote 1186: Pages 113, 114. Footnote 1187: _Un Empereur Byzantin au Dixième Siècle_, p. 299. Footnote 1188: See _De Top. CP._, iv. c. i. iv. Footnote 1189: Sozomon, vii. c. xxiv., Λέγεται δὲ τότε τῆς Κωνσταντινουπόλεως ἐκδημῶν, πρὸς τῷ Ἑβδόμῳ μιλίῳ γενόμενος, προσεύξασθαι τῷ θεῷ ἐη τῇ ἐνθάδε ἐκκλησίᾳ, ἥν ἐπὶ τιμῇ Ἰωάννου τοῦ Βαπτιστοῦ ἐδείματο. Footnote 1190: See above, p. 74. Footnote 1191: See above, pp. 77, 78. Footnote 1192: See above, pp. 81, 82. Footnote 1193: _Constantinopolis Christiana_, ii. pp. 172-174; and the “Excursus on the Hebdomon,” appended to the edition of his great work published at Venice. Footnote 1194: Theophanes Cont., p. 340. Footnote 1195: Gyllius refers to Tekfour Serai under the name of the Palace of Constantine, and recognizes the existence of a Palace of the Magnaura at the Hebdomon; but he neither identifies the two palaces, nor points to Tekfour Serai as an indication of the site of the Hebdomon. Footnote 1196: Theophylactus Simocat., p. 339. What the historian says is, Τὸ πεδίον τὸ ἀνακείμενον ἐν τῷ λεγομένῳ Ἑβδόμῳ, ὅν Κάμπον Ῥωμαῖοι κατονομάζουσι. Footnote 1197: Nicephorus, _Patriarcha CP._, pp. 15, 16, Καὶ πρὸς τὸ τῆς πόλεως ὅ Ἕβδομον καλοῦσι καταλαβόντες ἱδρύσαντο. What the enemy did was to halt at the Hebdomon before advancing against the city. Footnote 1198: See below, p. 329. Footnote 1199: Page 333; cf. _Ibid._, p. 236, where the distance of the Hebdomon from the city is said to be one parasang and a half. Zosimus (p. 271) gives the distance as forty stadia. Footnote 1200: Cf. _Paschal Chron._, pp. 556, 562. Footnote 1201: Lib. vii. c. xxiv. See quotation of the passage on p. 318, ref. 1. Footnote 1202: Lib. vi. c. vi., Ἀπέχει καὶ τοῦτο ἑπτὰ σημείοις τῆς πόλεως. Footnote 1203: