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of the harbour, he brought the 1.8.8 shore of the sea to a transformation of a marketplace. For the sea here, being exceedingly calm, shares 1.8.9 in transactions with the land. And the seafaring merchants, having moored their skiffs beside the projection of the rocks, trade with the people of the land from their decks the 1.8.10 merchandise. A courtyard after the shore lies before the church as a marketplace. And the courtyard in its colour resembles beautiful and Chian 1.8.11 marbles. And those who take their walks here are delighted by the beauty of the stones, rejoice in the sight of the sea, and luxuriate in the mingled breezes stirred up both from the surf and from the hills rising over the 1.8.12 land. A circular portico surrounds the church, leaving a gap only on the eastern side. In the middle the sanctuary has been adorned with countless colours 1.8.13 of stone. A lofty roof is suspended in a dome. Who, by recounting them, could describe in a manner worthy of the work the suspended porticoes, the underlying structures, the charm of the marbles with which both the walls and 1.8.14 the floors are completely clothed? And in addition to these things, an extraordinary amount of gold is poured all over the sanctuary as if 1.8.15 it had grown there naturally. Having said so much, the precinct of John the Baptist has also been described by me, which the Emperor Justinian recently dedicated to him in the place called 1.8.16 Hebdomon. For both precincts happen to be very similar to one another, except, of course, that the one of the Baptist does not happen to be on the sea. 1.8.17 So, then, the church of the Archangel in the place called Anaplus 1.8.18 has been built in this way. But on the opposite shore a certain place is situated a little way from the sea, level by nature, but 1.8.19 rising high by a construction of stone. Here the precinct of the Archangel has been built, extraordinary in beauty, first in size, and in its lavishness worthy of being dedicated to 1.8. Michael, and of being dedicated by the Emperor Justinian. And not far from this church he renewed a holy precinct to the Mother of God in the same manner, which had fallen into ruin long before, the sanctity of which it would be a long task both to investigate and to describe in words; but the long-awaited portion of the history follows. 1.9.1 On this very shore there happened to be from ancient times a noteworthy palace. This Emperor Justinian dedicated entirely to God, exchanging the immediate gratification for the fruit of piety which comes from it, in the following 1.9.2 way. There was in Byzantium a crowd of women prostituted in a brothel not voluntarily, but through a certain violent 1.9.3 compulsion. For, being maintained by a brothel-keeper because of their extreme poverty, it was necessary for them to be debauched every day, and they were compelled to be paired suddenly with unknown and casual 1.9.4 men. For here from of old there was a large guild of brothel-keepers, who managed the business of licentiousness in a workshop, selling the beauty of others in the public part of the marketplace 1.9.5 and enslaving chastity. But Emperor Justinian and Empress Theodora (for they did everything sharing their piety with each other) devised the following. 1.9.6 They cleansed the state of the pollution of the brothels, driving out the name of the brothel-keepers, and they freed the women who were suffering from great poverty from slavish licentiousness, having provided for them an independent livelihood and a free chastity. These things, then, 1.9.7 they arranged in this way. And on this shore of the strait, which is on the right as one sails into the so-called Euxine Pontus, they established a magnificent monastery in what was formerly a palace, to be a refuge for women repenting 1.9.8 of their former life; so that by their future occupation here in matters concerning God and piety they might be able to purge away the sins of their life 1.9.9 in the brothel. For which reason they also call this dwelling-place of the women Metanoia (Repentance), giving it a name appropriate to its 1.9.10 function. And these sovereigns have endowed this monastery with many revenues of money, and many buildings in beauty and lavishness

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λιμένος, τὴν 1.8.8 τῆς θαλάττης ἠϊόνα ἐς μεταμόρφωσιν ἀγορᾶς ἤνεγκεν. ἡσύχιος γὰρ ὑπεράγαν ἐνταῦθα ἡ θάλασσα οὖσα τῇ γῇ ἐπι1.8.9 κοινοῦται συναλλαγάς. ταῖς τε ἀκάτοις οἱ τῶν ἐμπόρων θαλάσσιοι παρὰ τὴν ἐμβολὴν τῶν πετρῶν ὁρμισάμενοι συμβάλλονται τοῖς ἐγγείοις ἀπὸ τῶν καταστρωμάτων τὰ 1.8.10 ἐμπολήματα. αὐλὴ μετὰ τὴν παραλίαν ἀγορὰν τοῦ νεὼ πρόκειται. καὶ μαρμάροις μὲν ὡραίοις τε καὶ χίοσιν ἡ 1.8.11 αὐλὴ τὸ χρῶμα ὁμοιοῖ. οἱ δὲ τοὺς περιπάτους τῇδε ποιούμενοι εὐπρεπείᾳ μὲν ἥδονται λίθων, γεγήθασι δὲ θαλάσσης ὄψει, ἐναβρύνονται δὲ κοιναῖς ταῖς αὔραις ἔκ τε τοῦ ῥοθίου ἐπεγειρομέναις καὶ λόφων ἐπανεστηκότων τῇ 1.8.12 γῇ. στοὰ τὸν νεὼν περιβάλλει ἐγκύκλιος ἐς τὰ πρὸς ἕω διαλιποῦσα μόνον. ἐπὶ μέσης τὸ ἱερὸν χρώμασι μυρίοις 1.8.13 πεποίκιλται λίθων. ὄροφος ἐν θόλῳ μετάρσιος ὑπερῃώρηται. τί ἄν τις διαριθμησάμενος ἐπαξίως τοῦ ἔργου φράσοι τὰς ᾐωρημένας στοάς, τὰς ὑπεσταλμένας οἰκοδομίας, τὸ τῶν μαρμάρων ἐπίχαρι, οἷς δὴ οἵ τε τοῖχοι καὶ 1.8.14 τὰ ἐδάφη παντάπασι περιβέβληνται; πρὸς ἐπὶ τούτοις δὲ καὶ χρυσοῦ πλῆθος ἐξαίσιον πανταχόσε τοῦ ἱεροῦ καθά1.8.15 περ αὐτῷ πεφυκὸς περικέχυται. τοσαῦτα εἰπόντι καὶ τὸ Ἰωάννου τοῦ Βαπτιστοῦ τέμενός μοι δεδήλωται, ὅπερ αὐτῷ βασιλεὺς Ἰουστινιανὸς ἔναγχος ἐν τῷ Ἑβδόμῳ καλου1.8.16 μένῳ ἀνέθηκεν. ἐμφερέστατα γὰρ ἄμφω ἀλλήλοιν τὰ τεμένη τυγχάνει ὄντα, πλήν γε δὴ ὅτι οὐκ ἐπιθαλάσσιον τὸ τοῦ Βαπτιστοῦ ξυμβαίνει εἶναι. 1.8.17 Ὁ μὲν οὖν ἐν τῷ Ἀνάπλῳ καλουμένῳ τοῦ ἀρχαγγέλου 1.8.18 ναὸς τῇδε πεπόνηται. κατὰ δὲ τὴν ἀντιπέρας ἀκτὴν ὀλίγῳ τῆς θαλάσσης διέχει τις χῶρος, ὁμαλὸς μὲν φύσιν, συν1.8.19 θέσει δὲ λίθων ὑψοῦ ἀνέχων. ἐνταῦθα τὸ τοῦ ἀρχαγγέλου δεδημιούργηται τέμενος, εὐπρεπείᾳ μὲν ἐξαίσιον, μεγέθει δὲ πρῶτον, πολυτελείᾳ δὲ ἀνακεῖσθαι μὲν τῷ 1.8. Μιχαὴλ πρέπον, ἀναθεῖναι δὲ Ἰουστινιανῷ βασιλεῖ. τούτου δὲ δὴ οὐ πολλῷ ἄποθεν τοῦ νεὼ τέμενος ἅγιον τῇ θεοτόκῳ ἀνενεώσατο τρόπῳ τῷ αὐτῷ καταπεπονηκὸς πολλῷ πρότερον, οὗ δὴ τὸ σεμνὸν μακρὸν ἂν εἴη καὶ διερευνήσασθαι καὶ λόγῳ σημῆναι· ἐκδέχεται δὲ ἡ πάλαι τῆς ἱστορίας προσδοκωμένη μοῖρα. 1.9.1 Ἐπὶ ταύτης δὴ τῆς ἀκτῆς ἀξιοθέατα ἐκ παλαιοῦ βασίλεια ἐτύγχανεν ὄντα. ταῦτα βασιλεὺς Ἰουστινιανὸς ἀνατέθεικε τῷ θεῷ ἅπαντα, τὸν ἐνθένδε τῆς εὐσεβείας καρπὸν τῆς παραυτίκα παραψυχῆς ἀλλαξάμενος τρόπῳ 1.9.2 τοιῷδε. ὅμιλος ἦν ἐπὶ Βυζαντίου γυναίων ἐν μαστροπείῳ λελαγνευμένων οὐχ ἑκούσιον, ἀλλὰ βιαίαν τινὰ μι1.9.3 σητίαν. τῆς γὰρ πενίας τῷ ὑπερβάλλοντι ὑπὸ πορνοβοσκῷ τρεφομέναις ἀεὶ καὶ καθ' ἑκάστην ἀκολασταίνειν ἐπάναγκες ἦν, ἀνδράσι τε ἀγνῶσι καὶ παραπεπτωκόσιν 1.9.4 ἐξαπιναίως ἐσποδιοῦντο συνδυαζόμεναι. πορνοβοσκῶν γὰρ ἐνταῦθα ἦν ἐκ παλαιοῦ ἑταιρία πολλή, ἐπ' ἐργαστηρίου τὸ τῆς ἀκολασίας διαχειριζόντων ἐμπόλημα, ἔν τε τῷ δημοσίῳ τῆς ἀγορᾶς ὥραν ἀποδιδομένων τὴν ἀλλο1.9.5 τρίαν καὶ δουλαγωγούντων τὸ σῶφρον. βασιλεὺς δὲ Ἰουστινιανὸς καὶ βασιλὶς Θεοδώρα (τὴν γὰρ εὐσέβειαν ἀλλήλοις ἐπικοινούμενοι ἅπαντα ἔπρασσον) ἐπενόουν τάδε. 1.9.6 τὴν μὲν πολιτείαν τοῦ τῶν μαστροπείων ἄγους ἐκάθηραν, ἐξελάσαντες τὸ τῶν πορνοβοσκῶν ὄνομα, τῶν δὲ γυναικῶν τὰς πενίᾳ ταλαιπωρουμένας πολλῇ ἀκολασίας τῆς δουλοπρεποῦς ἠλευθέρωσαν, βίοτον μὲν σφίσιν αὐτόνομον, ἐλευθέραν δὲ τὴν σωφροσύνην πεπορισμένοι. ταῦτα μὲν 1.9.7 οὖν διῳκήσαντο τῇδε. παρὰ ταύτην δὲ τοῦ πορθμοῦ τὴν ἀκτήν, ἥ ἐστιν ἐν δεξιᾷ εἰσπλέοντι τὸν Εὔξεινον καλούμενον Πόντον, βασίλεια πρότερον ὄντα μοναστήριον μεγαλοπρεπὲς κατεστήσαντο καταγώγιον ταῖς μεταμελου1.9.8 μέναις γυναιξὶν ἐπὶ τῷ προτέρῳ βίῳ ἐσόμενον· ἐφ' ᾧ τῇ ἐνταῦθα περί τε τὸν θεὸν καὶ τὴν εὐσέβειαν ἀσχολίᾳ γενησομένῃ περικαθῆραι τὰς ἁμαρτάδας δυναταὶ εἶεν τῆς 1.9.9 ἐν μαστροπείῳ διαίτης. διὸ δὴ καὶ Μετάνοιαν τοῦτο δὴ 1.9.9 τῶν γυναικῶν τὸ διαιτητήριον ὁμωνύμως τῷ ἔργῳ ἐπο1.9.10 νομάζουσι. καὶ πολλαῖς μὲν χρημάτων προσόδοις οἱ βασιλεῖς οὗτοι τὸ μοναστήριον δεδώρηνται τοῦτο, πολλὰ δὲ οἰκία κάλλει τε καὶ πολυτελείᾳ