Footnote 301: Constant. Porphyr., _De Cer._, p. 109. Footnote 302: See below, pp. 106, 107. Footnote 303: It is still held in great repute, and on the Friday of Greek Easter week is visited by immense crowds of devotees, as in the olden time. Footnote 304: Procopius, _De Æd._, i. c. 3. Footnote 305: Constant. Porphyr., _De Cer._, p. 109. Footnote 306: Leo Diaconus, iv. p. 64. Footnote 307: Pachymeres, vol. i. p. 142; Niceph. Greg., iv. p. 85. Footnote 308: See Muralt, _Essai de Chronographie Byzantine_, vol. ii. Footnote 309: Ducas, p. 184. Footnote 310: Nicolo Barbaro, p. 733. Footnote 311: _Paschal Chron._, p. 590. Footnote 312: _Synaxaria_, Oct. 25. Footnote 313: Paspates, p. 47; Mordtmann, p. 15. Footnote 314: _Synaxaria_, Oct. 25. Ἐν τῇ Μελανδησία πόρτῃ, ἐν αὐτῇ τῇ Κωνσταντινούπολει, τοποθεσίᾳ τοῦ Δευτέρου. Footnote 315: See below, p. 78. Footnote 316: Nicephorus Callistus, xv. c. 25, c. 28. Footnote 317: Agathias, v. c. 14, c. 20. Footnote 318: Marcellinus Comes, _ad Zenonem_. Footnote 319: _Paschal Chron._, p. 717. Footnote 320: _Ibid._, p. 590. Footnote 321: Mordtmann, p. 78. Footnote 322: _Menæa_, May 30, as quoted by Du Cange, _Constantinopolis Christiana_, ii. p. 178. Footnote 323: Constant. Porphyr., _De Cer._, p. 501; Cedrenus, vol. ii. p. 540. Footnote 324: Mordtmann, pp. 14, 15. Footnote 325: See above, p. 77. Footnote 326: Codinus, p. 47. Footnote 327: Cedrenus, vol. ii. p. 540. Footnote 328: Theophanes Cont., p. 323. Footnote 329: Codinus, p. 126. Footnote 330: Pages 378-389. Footnote 331: Banduri, _Imp. Orient._, vii. p. 150. Footnote 332: Theophanes, pp. 355, 358. Footnote 333: See above, pp. 46, 47. Footnote 334: The inscription is found in the C. I. G., No. 8789. Dr. Paspates compares it with No. 8788 in that collection. ΝΙΚΑ Η ΤΥΧΗ ΚΩΝΣΤΑΝΤΙΝΟΥ ΜΕΓΑΛΟΥ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΤΟΥ ΣΥΣΤΑΤΙΚΟΥ ΝΙΚΗΤΟΥ ΚΑΙ ΒΕΝΕΤΩΝ (of the Blues) ΕΥΝΩΟΥΝΤΩΝ. See below, p. 102. Footnote 335: See above, p. 47. Footnote 336: See below, p. 97. Footnote 337: Choiseul-Gouffier, _Voyage pittoresque dans l’Empire Ottoman, etc._, vol. iv. p. 17, speaking of this gate, says, “Sur le cintre de cette porte sont les représentations de quelques saints, donc les Turcs ont effacé le visage.” Cf. Paspates, p. 51. Footnote 338: Mordtmann, p. 15. Footnote 339: _Paschal Chron._, p. 720. Footnote 340: _De Constantinopoli Expugnata_, p. 462. Footnote 341: Critobulus, i. c. 23, c. 27 (_Fragmenta Historicorum Græcorum_, vol. v.); Phrantzes, p. 237. Footnote 342: Critobulus; Phrantzes, _ut supra_. Footnote 343: Pusculus, iv. Compare lines 165 and 169. Cf. Dolfin, s. 54. Footnote 344: Anonymus, iii. p. 55; _Itinéraires Russes en Orient_, p. 103. Footnote 345: _Paschal Chron._, p. 719. Footnote 346: See below, p. 84. Footnote 347: _E.g._ Dethier, _Le Bosphore et Consple._, p. 50.