A year later he had to write, “Those on the Porta Aurea are like to stand, till they fall by tyme: I haue vsed all meanes, and once bought them, and deposed, 3 moneths, 500 dollers. Without authority, the danger and impossibility were alike; therefore I dealt with the great treasurer, who in these tymes is greedy of any mony, and hee had consented to deliuer them into a boat without any hazard of my part. The last weeke hee rode himself to see them, and carried the surueigher of the citty walls with him; but the Castellano and the people beganne to mutine, and fell vpon a strange conceit; insomuch that hee was forced to retyre, and presently sent for my enterpreter, demanding if I had any old booke of prophesy: inferring, that those statues were enchanted, and that wee knew, when they should bee taken downe, some great alteration should befall this cytty.... In conclusion, hee sent to mee, to think, nor mention no more that place, which might cost his life, and bring mee into trouble; so that I despair to effect therein your graces seruice: and it is true, though I could not gett the stones, yet I allmost raised an insurrection in that part of the cytty.” Footnote 236: _Paschal Chron._, p. 590. Footnote 237: Constant. Porphyr., _De Cer._, p. 414. Footnote 238: Theophanes, p. 186. Footnote 239: _Paschal Chron._, p. 693. Footnote 240: Theophanes, p. 784. Footnote 241: Constant. Porphyr., _De Cer._, p. 438. Footnote 242: Anastasius Bibliothecarius. Footnote 243: _Ibid._ Footnote 244: Guillelmus Bibliothecarius, _in Hadriano II_. Footnote 245: Theophanes Cont., p. 432. Footnote 246: Zosimus, p. 234. Footnote 247: See illustration facing p. 334. Footnote 248: Theophanes, p. 668. Footnote 249: Constant. Porphyr., _De Cer._, pp. 503, 504. Footnote 250: _Ibid._, p. 498. Footnote 251: Leo Diaconus, p. 158. Footnote 252: Cedrenus, vol. ii. p. 475. Footnote 253: Pachymeres, vol. i. p. 160. Footnote 254: Procopius, _De Bello Vand._, ii. c. 9; Theophanes, p. 309. Footnote 255: Theophanes, p. 388. Footnote 256: Leo Diaconus, p. 28. Footnote 257: _Ibid._, p. 23. Footnote 258: Theophanes, p. 309. Footnote 259: For the descriptions of the triumphs accorded to Basil I. and Theophilus, see Constant. Porphyr., _De Cer._, pp. 498-508. Footnote 260: Constant. Porphyr., _De Cer._, p. 499, Ἐν δὼ τῷ λιβαδίῳ τῷ ἔξω τῆς χρυσῆς πόρτας. Footnote 261: On the pier to the left of the central archway are painted in red the words, ΠΟΛΛΑ ΤΑ ΕΤΗ ΤΩΝ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΝ; while on the pier to the right are the words, Ο ΘΣ ΚΑΛΩΣ ΗΝΕΝΤΕΝ ΣΕ; lingering echoes of the shouts that shook the gate on a day of triumph. Footnote 262: See illustration facing p. 334. Footnote 263: Leo Diaconus, p. 158. Footnote 264: Pachymeres, vol. i. p. 160. Footnote 265: Constant. Porphyr., p. 508. Footnote 266: