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Procopius\ amd Dionysius\ have bestow€d upon chap. 
the bay the name of the promontory : and the . , .^„ 
plausible notion adopted by Gibbon* of a cornu- 
copia", as applicable to a wealthy harbour, was so 
naturally suggested by what former writers 
had said upon the same subject, that it has 
been very generally believed the Sinus Byzan- 
TiNUS was originally denominated Chrysoceras ; 
whereas this was not the name of the bay, but 
of the Byzantine Horn, or promontory upon 
which the city stood; as we learn from Pliny \ 
and Ammianus Marcellinus^ ; although opposed 
to Strabo'' and Zosimus\ We are expressly 
(2) Procop. dc /Edi/tciis Justin, lib. i. c. 5. torn. II. p. 16. Paris, 
1663, 
(3) "Dionysius Byzantius similiter Coinu nuncupat." Gyll. de 
Bosp. Throe, lib. i. c. 5. apud Gronov. Crac. Antiq. Thesaur. p. 3116. 
wol. VL Z, Bat. 1699. 
(4) " The epithet of golden was expressive of the riches which 
€very wind wafted from the most distant countries into the secure 
and capacious port of Constantinople." Gibbon, Hist. c. xvii. vol. 111. 
p. 6. Lond. 1807. 
(5) " Promontorium, Cfirt/soceras, in quo oppidum Byzantium 
liberje conditionis, antea Lygo dictum." Plin. Hist. Nat. lib. iv. 
torn. I. p. 217. L.Bat. 163S. 
(6) " CoDStautinopolis^ vetus Byzantium, Atticorum colonia, et 
promontorium Ceras." Ammian. MurceUin. lib.xxii. c. 8. ed. Gronov. 
L. Bat. 1693. 
(7) 'EvTtuhv Vi i*) TO Kjjaf ra Bvl^avrluii ■rivTi' 'iffri "Si ri YLi^a; v^ovi^'i} 
r£ Bw^ofvT-/^ riixih «• r. k. Strabon. Geog. lib. vii. p. 463. ed. Oxon, 
Strabo afterwards compares the port («9Ajr«j) to the horn of a stag. 
(8) KiTrai fiit yap h froki; etJ Xefou, fii^a; i'^i^oufm rau 'iffSfitu, too 3<» 
Tfj KaKaufAtau KEPATOS »«) rijf Tlai'TovTi^is txriXtv^iHV* Zosil*i. 
Hi^t. lib. ii. 
