i gambros tou Phoka tou
tyrannou perioristheis ekei para tou idiou ektise tauten monen eis
kallos kai megethos, apocharisamenos kai ktemata polla].

[515] Niceph. Greg. iii. p. 459.

[516] Schmitt, p. 28.

[517] Theoph. pp. 554, 556; Synax. _ad diem_; Cedrenus, i. p. 784.

[518] Theoph. pp. 626-680; Synax., May 12.

[519] Theoph. pp. 647-8.

[520] _Life of Michael Syncellus_, p. 31, in supplement to vol. xxiv.
of the _Proceedings of the Greek Syllogos of C.P._; cf. Schmitt, p.
251.

[521] _Life of Michael Syncellus_, _ut supra_, pp. 30, 31.

[522] See supplement to vol. xxiv. of the _Proceedings of the Greek
Syllogos of Constantinople_, p. 33; cf. Schmitt, pp. 257-8.

[523] Niceph. Greg. iii. p. 459.

[524] _Ibid._ i. p. 459.

[525] The manuscript was discovered in the Seraglio Library by
Professor T. Uspenski, and has been photographically reproduced by the
Russian Institute of Constantinople.

[526] The inscription has been injured. It now reads:--

[Symbol: cross.][Greek: ho .. os tou
pselo .. tou
... sileos ...
... xiou ...
.. ou ...]

See Schmitt, pp. 38-39, who restores the inscription thus:

[Greek: ho hyios tou hypselotatou
basileos Alexiou tou
Komnenou].

[527] See Schmitt, pp. 39-40.

[528] Niceph. Greg. i. p. 459.

[529] Niceph. Greg. i. p. 459. [Greek: houtos habrotera chresamenos
dexia, plen tou mesaitatou neo panta kalos epeskeuase], cf. ii. p.
1045.

[530] _Theodori Metochitae carmina_, ed. Treu. A 1004, _et passim_.

[531] Niceph. Greg. i. p. 303 [Greek: arti tou neourgein epepauto ten
tes Choras monen, hopsos ho endon etynchane kosmos].

[532] Niceph. Greg. ii. pp. 1045-6.

[533] Niceph. Greg. iii. p. 243.

[534] Cantacuzene, i. p. 54.

[535] Cantacuzene, ii. p. 209.

[536] _De top. C.P._ iv. c. 4:--Inter palatium Constantini et portam
urbis Adrianopolitanam extat aedes in septimo (?) colle, quae etsi jam
tot secula sit intra urbem tamen etiamnum [Greek: christos choras]
appellatur, ex eo, quod olim esset extra urbem. Ex tribus partibus, ut
mos est Graecorum aedium sacrarum, porticu cingitur. Parietes ejus
intrinsecus vestiti crustis marmoris varii quadratis, ita inter se
conjunctis ut distinguantur ab immo sursum versus modulis
astragalorum, aliorum baccatorum, aliorum ter etiam sine baccis. Supra
quadratas crustas discurrunt tres fasciae et tres velut