1170.  Cantacuzene, iv. p. 165.

1171.  Ibid., p. 290. Taken in conjunction with the other arguments on the subject, the epithet New, bestowed upon the Neorion at the Heptascalon, implied not only that the harbour was no longer its old self, but, also, that it was to be distinguished from another and earlier Neorion. But the only other conspicuous Neorion during the reign of Cantacuzene was the Kontoscalion.

1172.  Lib. xvii. p. 854: Ἐς τὸ περὶ τὸν τοῦ Βυζαντίου ἱππόδρομον νεώριον. Cf. Cantacuzene, iv. p. 72.

1173.  Lib. xxvi. p. 90.

1174.  Unger (Quellen der Byzantinischen Kunstgeschichte, p. 264), without discussing the question at length, holds, as the result of his study of the texts, that the Kontoscalion cannot be identified with either the Harbour of Sophia or the Heptascalon. Scarlatus Byzantius (Ἡ Κωνσταντινούπολις, vol. i. pp. 268, 277) also maintains that the three names designated different harbours.

1175.  Συγγραφαὶ Ἐλάσσονες, pp. 443, 444. He was not patriarch at the time.

1176.  For the following information I am indebted to the Rev. H. O. Dwight, LL.D., who knew the quarter of Yeni Kapou in 1854, and was for many years a resident there.

1177.  It is still standing.

1178.  See above, p. 308.

1179.  Ut supra.

1180.  Pachymeres, vol. i. p. 365, Τὸ πρὸς τὸν Βλάγκα Κοντοσκέλιον.

1181.  Librum Insularum Archipelago, p. 121.

1182.  Vol. i. p. 365.

1183.  See above, p. 295.

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.

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.

1186.  Pages 113, 114.

1187.  Un Empereur Byzantin au Dixième Siècle, p. 299.

1188.  See De Top. CP., iv. c. i. iv.

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.

1190.  See above, p. 74.

1191.  See above, pp. 77, 78.

1192.  See above, pp. 81, 82.

1193.  Constantinopolis Christiana, ii. pp. 172-174; and the “Excursus on the Hebdomon,” appended to the edition of his great work published at Venice.

1194.  Theophanes Cont., p. 340.

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.

1196.  Theophylactus Simocat., p. 339. What the historian says is, Τὸ πεδίον τὸ ἀνακείμενον ἐν τῷ λεγομένῳ Ἑβδόμῳ, ὅν Κάμπον Ῥωμαῖοι κατονομάζουσι.

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.

1198.  See below, p. 329.

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.

1200.  Cf. Paschal Chron., pp. 556, 562.

1201.  Lib. vii. c. xxiv. See quotation of the passage on p. 318, ref. 1.

1202.  Lib. vi. c. vi., Ἀπέχει καὶ τοῦτο ἑπτὰ σημείοις τῆς πόλεως.

1203.  Fragm. Hist. Græc., iv. p. 611, Ὅς ζ᾽ σημείοις τῆς πόλεως ἀφειστήκει.

1204.  Lib. vi. c. xii., Ἀπέχει καὶ τοῦτο ἑπτὰ σημείοις τῆς πόλεως.

1205.  Vol. i. p. 641, Εἰς τὸ πρὸ τῆς πόλεως πεδίοv ἑπτὰ σημείοις ἀπέχον.

1206.  Procopius, De Æd., i. c. xi.

1207.  Lib. xxii., De Sacros Eccl.

1208.  Socrates, vi. c. xii.; Sozomon, vii. c. xiv.

1209.  John of Antioch, Fragm. Hist. Græc., v. p. 38; cf. Paschal Chron., pp. 699, 700.

1210.  Page 541. Speaking of the same event, the Patriarch Nicephorus (p. 36) describes the Hebdomon as παραθαλάσσιον τόπον. In regard to the situation of the Hebdomon upon the sea, compare Synaxaria, September 2, the Festival of St. John the Faster, Patriarch of Constantinople.

1211.  Theophanes, p. 608, Ἀπάραντες ἐκεῖθεν παρέπλευσαν τὴν πόλιν.

1212.  Anastasius Bibliothecarius, De Vitis Pontificum Roman, p. 56. Paris, 1649.

1213.  Constantinopolis Christiana, i. p. 45. See above, p. 70, ref. 1.

1214.  Theophanes, p. 541.

1215.  Page 541.

1216.  Guillelmus Biblioth. in Hadriano II.

1217.  Fragm. Hist. Græc., v. p. 38.

1218.  Page 699.

1219.  Procopius, De Æd., iv. c. viii.

1220.  Ibid., ut supra.

1221.  Paschal Chron., p. 622.

1222.  Theophanes, p. 693.

1223.  Page 458, Τὸ καστέλλιν τῶν Θεοδοσιανῶν ἐν τῷ Ἑβδόμῳ.

1224.  Notitia Dignitatum, pp. 12, 14, 16, etc. Edition of Otto Seeck. Du Cange thinks the Castle of the Theodosiani was the Castellion built by Tiberius to protect his fleet against the Bulgarians (see Anonymus, iii. p. 57; Codinus, p. 115).

1225.  Sozomon, vii. c. xxiv. There, probably, Julian encamped the army with which he advanced from Gaul to Constantinople (Zosimus, p. 139).

1226.  Zosimus, pp. 255, 256.

1227.  Ibid., pp. 272, 273.

1228.  Marcellinus Comes, in 513.

1229.  Theophanes, pp. 446, 447; Theophylactus Simocat., p. 339.

1230.  Theophanes, p. 784.

1231.  Nicephorus, Patriarcha CP., pp. 15, 16; Theophanes Cont., p. 385.

1232.  Constant. Porphyr., De Cer., pp. 414, 416.

1233.  Theophanes, p. 458.

1234.  Theophanes Cont., p. 379.

1235.  Paschal Chron., p. 586; Theophanes, pp. 143, 144; Cedrenus, vol. i. p. 641; Paschal Chron., p. 702.

1236.  Theophanes, p. 169.

1237.  Paschal Chron., p. 589; Theophanes, p. 355. The Greek Church still commemorates seven of the earthquakes which shook the city during the Byzantine period.

1238.  Theophanes, p. 458.

1239.  Theophylactus Simocat., p. 339.

1240.  Ammianus Marcellinus, xxvi. c. iv.; cf. Themistius, as cited below; Paschal Chron. p. 556.

1241.  Themistius, Oratio VI., p. 99. Edit. Dindorf.

1242.  Paschal Chron., p. 562. The Campus is sometimes styled the Campus of the Tribunal, as for example by Cedrenus, vol. i. p. 707: ἐν τῷ Κάμπῳ τοῦ Τριβουναλίου.

1243.  Themistius, Oratio VI., p. 99. Edit. Dindorf.

1244.  Paschal Chron., p. 562.

1245.  Marcellinus Comes.

1246.  Paschal Chron., p. 568.

1247.  Ibid., p. 590.

1248.  Ibid., p. 592.

1249.  Victor Tunnensis.

1250.  Cedrenus, vol. i. p. 615.

1251.  Theophanes, p. 388.

1252.  Ibid., p. 447.

1253.  Ibid., p. 784.

1254.  Constant. Porphyr., De Cer., p. 438.

1255.  The Coronation of Leo the Great in 475, and that of Nicephorus Phocas in 963. See Constant. Porphyr., De Cer., pp. 410-417, 433-440.

1256.  The soldiers spoke in Latin at the Coronation of Anastasius I. in the Hippodrome. See Constant. Porphyr., De Cer., p. 431. Probably that was the rule.

1257.  In older times the emperor was raised upon a shield at this point of the proceedings. E.g. Julian (Ammianus Marcell. xx. 4); Arcadius, Valens (Idatius Fasti Consulares); Theodosius II. (Paschal Chron., p. 568); Marcian (Paschal Chron., p. 590).

1258.  Near the Forum of Arcadius, on the Seventh Hill.

1259.  In the case of Phocas, for manifest reasons, the coronation by the patriarch took place in the Church of St. John the Baptist at the Hebdomon.

So also in the case of Zeno, according to Victor Tunnensis, as quoted by Du Cange, ii. p. 173. “Zeno a Leone Augusto filio in Septimo contra consuetudinem coronatur.”

1260.  Constant. Porphyr., De Cer., p. 498.

1261.  The case of Basil I. is not given by Constantine Porphyrogenitus as exceptional, and may be considered as exemplifying the rule.

1262.  Constant. Porphyr., De Cer., pp. 498-503.

1263.  Rufinus, De Vitis Patrum, iii., n. 19. “Fuit quidam nuper monachus in Constantinopoli, temporibus Theodosii imperatoris. Habitabat autem in parva cella foris civitatem prope proastium, qui vocatur in Septimo, ubi solent imperatores, egressi de civitate, libenter degere.”

1264.  De Sacro Eccl., Lex. 22. “Recitata septimo milliario inclytæ civitatis, in Novo Consistorio Palatii Justiniani;” cf. Novella, 118.

1265.  Procopius, De Æd., i. c. xi. The name appears, also, under the form Secundianas: “In Septimo, in palatio quod dicitur Secundianas” (Pope Gregory the Great, lib. ii. epist. 1; see Du Cange, lii. p. 141; cf. Malalas, p. 486).

1266.  Lydus, p. 229. The column was overthrown by an earthquake in 577, and sank eight feet into the ground (Theophanes, p. 358).

1267.  Procopius, ut supra; Theophanes, p. 353.

1268.  Theophanes, pp. 541, 608.

1269.  See Labarte, Le Palais Impérial de Consple., pp. 185-195. It was a hall in the form of a basilica, divided in three aisles by two rows of six columns, with an apse at the eastern end, where the emperor’s throne stood on a platform. In it foreign princes and ambassadors were received, and there meetings of the great dignitaries of the State were held.

1270.  Theophanes, p. 152.

1271.  Symeon Metaphrastes, Life of Daniel Stylites, p. 1025. Patrol. Græca, Migne.

1272.  Procopius, De Æd., i. c. xi.

1273.  Theophanes, p. 351.

1274.  Eustachius, Vita Eutychii Patriarchæ, as quoted by Du Cange, Constantinopolis Christiana, iv. p. 177.

1275.  Paschal Chron., p. 690.

1276.  Anonymus, iii. p. 56.

1277.  Socrates, vi. c. vi.

1278.  Theophanes Cont., p. 340.

1279.  Guillelmus Biblioth. in Hadriano PP.

1280.  Anna Comn., p. 149.

1281.  Cinnamus, pp. 176, 177.

1282.  Pachymeres, vol. i. pp. 124, 125. The epitaph is given by Banduri, Imp. Orient., vol. ii. vii. p. 179. It mentions the Hebdomon:

ΙΣΤΙΜΙ ΤΥΜΒΟΝ ΕΝ ΜΕΣΩ ΓΗΣ ΕΒΔΟΜΟΥ

1283.  Paschal Chron., p. 570.

1284.  Jerome, Adversus Vigilantium, c. ii. Quoted by Du Cange, iv. p. 105.

1285.  Paschal Chron., pp. 569, 570.

1286.  Theophanes, p. 357.

1287.  Socrates, vi. c. vi.

1288.  Anonymus, iii. p. 56.

1289.  Sozomon, vii. c. xxi.

1290.  Ibid., vii. c. xxiv.

1291.  Ibid., viii. c. iv.

1292.  Socrates, vi. c. xii.

1293.  Constant. Porphyr., De Cer., pp. 413, 499.

1294.  Procopius, De Æd., i. c. viii.

1295.  Theophanes Cont., p. 340. The wealthy monastery at the Hebdomon, mentioned in history, was probably attached to this church (John Scylitzes, in Cedrenus, vol. ii. p. 714).

1296.  Procopius, De Æd., i. c. iv.

1297.  Ibid., c. ix.

1298.  Menæa, 29 July, πλησίον τῶν παλατίων τοῦ Ἑβδόμου.

1299.  Constant. Porphyr., De Cer., p. 496.

1300.  Ibid., ut supra.

1301.  Anastasius Biblioth. in Hormisda PP.

1302.  Guillelmus Biblioth. in Hadriano PP.

1303.  Theophylactus Simocat., pp. 236, 237.

1304.  Theophanes Cont., pp. 906, 907.

1305.  Synaxaria, 26 October.

1306.  For a description of the wall, see Evagrius, iii. c. 38; Procopius, De Æd., iv. c. ix.

1307.  Theophanes, p. 361.

1308.  Agathias, p. 305.

1309.  Theophanes, p. 360.

1310.  Theophanes, p. 362; Procopius, De Æd., iv. c. ix.

1311.  Theophanes, p. 361.

1312.  Cedrenus, vol. i. p. 692.

1313.  Paschal Chron., 712.

1314.  Colonel F. V. Greene, United States Army, in his work, The Russian Army and its Campaigns in Turkey in 1877-78, p. 362.

1315.  Agathias, p. 305; Procopius, ut supra.

1316.  Theophanes, p. 460.