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Socrates, i. c. 16.
Footnote 143:
_Paschal Chron._, p. 528; Lydus, _De Magistratibus_, iii. p. 266.
Footnote 144:
Anonymus, i. p. 5; Codinus, p. 22.
Footnote 145:
Cf. Tchihatchef, _Le Bosphore et Constantinople_, chap. ii.;
Andreossy, _Constantinople et le Bosphore de Thrace_, Livre Troisième,
“Système des Eaux.”
Footnote 146:
Anonymus, i. p. 5.
Footnote 147:
_Ibid._, _ut supra_.
Footnote 148:
Socrates, ii. c. 13; Philostorgius, ii. c. 9.
Footnote 149:
_Cod. Theod._, lib. xiv. 13; _Cod. Justin._, xi. 20.
Footnote 150:
Hesychius Milesius, _Fragm. Hist. Græc._, iv. p. 154; Zosimus, p. 97.
Footnote 151:
_Cod. Theod._, Novella 12.
Footnote 152:
_Paschal Chron._, p. 530. Because of this subordination of Byzantium
to Heraclea, the bishop of the latter city has still the right to
preside at the consecration of the patriarch of Constantinople.
Footnote 153:
Valesian Anonymus, appended to the History of Ammianus Marcellinus.
The senators of Rome were styled “Clarissimi.”
Footnote 154:
_Nolitia, ad Regiones._ On the delimitation of the Regions, see
Gyllius, _De Topographia Constantinopleos_, l. ii. c. 2, 10, 16; l.
iii. c. 1, 2, 5, 7, 8, 9; l. iv. c. 1, 3, 7, 10, 11; and Mordtmann,
_Esquisse Topographique de Constantinople_, pp. 2-10. The point on
which these authorities differ most widely is regarding the situation
of the Seventh Region, Gyllius making it occupy the valley of the
Grand Bazaar, on the northern side of the city; while Mordtmann (pp.
6, 7) places it on the southern slope of the Second Hill, from the
Forum of Constantine to the Sea of Marmora. My view (at present) on
the subject is indicated in the Map of Byzantine Constantinople.
CHAPTER III.
THE THEODOSIAN WALLS.
The enduring character of the political reasons which had called the new
capital into being, and the commercial advantages which its unique
position commanded, favoured such an increase of population, that before
eighty-five years had elapsed, the original limits of Constantinople
proved too narrow for the crowds gathered within the walls.
So numerous were the inhabitants already in 378, that the Goths, who
then appeared before the city after the defeat of the Roman arms at
Adrianople, abandoned all hope of capturing a stronghold which could
draw upon such multitudes for its defence.[155]
[Illustration: The Land Walls of Constantinople.]