CONSTANTINOPLE. I77 
Ci/chpSan strxicture. We may gather, from what citap. 
Herodiim has said of them, that the masonry ^ ,'__. 
was mcomparablv superior to any of the work- ;!"*"'"' 
manship now visible in the fortifications of the Waiisof 
•j. CI 1 • • - 1 Byzantium, 
City. So late as the termmation ot the second 
century, when the austere Pescennius Niger was 
engaged in carrying on his warlike preparations 
against Severus, Byzantium yet flourished; 
boasting the most powerful citadel of Tkracey 
and being conspicuous for its strength and 
richest It was then surrounded by a wall 
made of such immense quadrangular masses of 
stone, and so skilfully adjusted, that the mar- 
vellous masonry, instead of disclosing to view 
the separate parts of which it consisted, 
seemed like one entire mass'. " The very 
ruins," says Herodian, ** shew the wonderful 
skill, not only of the persons who built it, but 
" Et ex Veteribus Xenophon. lib. vii. de Exped. Cyri, ax^av appellat ; 
'O "Si 'EriovtKas us rriv elx^av awa^suys/." Anselm. Baiidur. I,)ipcr. Orient. 
torn. II. p. 453. Paris, 1711. 
(2) Vide ilcrodinnuiH in Sever. Hist. lib. ill. 
(3) Yli^iTirii;i(^i(rro rt ystveci'iu n xai fttyiffTu h troXif ru^ii, Ttvein/xivcf/ 
fivXiTov X'Jov, in riT^ayuvov ti^yafffmcv' roau.ur'n n (ruvaiptia xai KoXXritri, 
a>; ytt^jSjva oiiaiai to 'i^yo* vuvhrov, ivoi li Xi^av -rocv TiVoi^<i^xi. ibid. 
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