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He himself rebuilt the city. 2.10.20 For since everything everywhere had been reduced to ashes and demolished, and only many hills of charred ruins rose from the incinerated city, it became impossible for the Antiochenes, after first carrying out all the collapsed material, to recognize the site of each one's own former house, to clear away the remains of a house from the fire, and furthermore, with no public porticoes or peristyle courts anywhere, nor any market established, nor alleys dividing the streets for the city, to venture the construction of any house. 2.10.21 But the emperor, without any delay, having transported the demolished materials as far as possible from the city, and having made the air there free from the hindrances below, first covered the ground everywhere in the city with wagon-sized stones; 2.10.22 then he marked it out with porticoes and market-places, and having divided all the districts with narrow streets, and having established drains and fountains and water-channels, with which the city is adorned, having also built for it theatres and baths, and having embellished it with all the other public buildings by which the prosperity of a city is wont to be displayed, and having brought in a multitude of artisans and craftsmen, he made it easier and less laborious for the inhabitants to build their own private houses. 2.10.23 And so it came to pass that Antioch is now more illustrious than it was before. 2.10.24 But he also built a great church here to the Mother of God. Its beauty and magnificence in every respect is impossible to describe in words; which he also honored with an endowment of great sums of money. 2.10.25 Furthermore, he also built a very large church to Michael the Archangel. And he also took thought for the poor here who were suffering from sickness, having established for them a house and everything suitable for their care and recovery from their illnesses, separately for men, and separately for women, and no less for the strangers who happened to be sojourning here. 2.11.1 Thus also the circuit-wall of the city of Chalcis, which had been insecure from the beginning and was dilapidated by age, he renewed along with the outwork, making it much stronger than it was before, and brought it to its present visible condition. 2.11.2 There was in Syria a certain completely neglected small town, Cyrus by name, which the Jews had built in former times, after they had been carried off as prisoners of war from Palestine to Assyria by the army of the Medes, and had been released much later by King Cyrus; for which reason, indeed, they called the place Cyrus, paying this thank-offering to their benefactor. 2.11.3 But as time went on, Cyrus was neglected in other respects 2.11.4 and remained entirely unwalled. But the Emperor Justinian, at once exercising foresight for the state and especially revering the saints Cosmas and Damian, whose bodies lie somewhere very near even to my time, has made Cyrus a prosperous city and one of great account, by the security of a very strong wall and a multitude of guards and the size of its public buildings, and by the exceedingly magnificent character of its other appointments. 2.11.5 The interior of this city had from of old been without water, but outside there was an extraordinary spring, abounding in a surplus of potable water, but being completely useless to the inhabitants there, since they had no way to draw water from it, except with great toil and danger. 2.11.6 For it was necessary for those going there to use roundabout ways, since a precipitous and altogether impassable place lay between; and they very easily became subject to enemies lying in ambush, if it so happened. 2.11.7 Therefore, having made a channel outside the city all the way to the spring, not openly, but as concealed as possible, he provided them with a supply of water that was both effortless and safe. 2.11.8 And the whole circuit-wall of the city of Chalcis, which was sunk to its foundations and otherwise undefended, he renewed with an exceedingly strong structure, and strengthened it with an outwork. 2.11.9 Furthermore also the other Syrian

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ἀνῳκοδομήσατο τὴν πόλιν 2.10.20 αὐτός. τετεφρωμένων γὰρ πανταχόσε καὶ καθῃρημένων ἁπάντων, λόφων τε μόνον ἐκ πόλεως ἐξηνθρακωμένης ἐπανεστηκότων πολλῶν, ἄπορον τοῖς Ἀντιοχεῦσιν ἐγίνετο τήν τε χώραν ἐπιγνῶναι τῆς ἑκάστου ἰδίας οἰκίας γενομένης τὰ πρῶτα ἐκφορήσασι τὸ συμπτωθὲν ἅπαν, οἰκίας τε πυρκαϊᾶς περικαθῆραι τὰ λείψανα, ἔτι μέντοι δημοσίων στοῶν ἢ περιστύλων αὐλῶν οὐδαμῆ οὐσῶν, οὐδὲ ἀγορᾶς πη καθισταμένης, οὐδὲ τῶν στενωπῶν τὰς ἀγυιὰς διαιρούντων τῇ πόλει, οἰκίας τινὸς οἰκοδομίαν ἀπαυθαδιά2.10.21 σασθαι. ἀλλὰ βασιλεὺς οὐδεμιᾷ μελλήσει ὡς ἀπωτάτω τῆς πόλεως τὰ καθῃρημένα μετενεγκών, ἐλεύθερόν τε τὸν ταύτῃ ἀέρα ξὺν τοῖς ἔνερθεν τῶν ἐνοχλούντων καταστησάμενος, πρῶτα μὲν τὰ ἐδάφη πανταχόθι τῆς πόλεως λίθοις 2.10.22 ἁμαξιαίοις ἐκάλυψεν· ἔπειτα δὲ στοαῖς τε καὶ ἀγοραῖς αὐτὴν διακρίνας, καὶ διελὼν μὲν τοῖς στενωποῖς ἀμφόδους ἁπάσας, ὀχετοὺς δὲ καὶ κρήνας καὶ ὑδροχόας καταστησάμενος, ὅσοις ἡ πόλις κεκόμψευται, θέατρά τε αὐτῇ καὶ βαλανεῖα πεποιημένος, καὶ ταῖς ἄλλαις δημοσίαις οἰκοδομίαις ἁπάσαις κοσμήσας, αἷσπερ εὐδαιμονία διαφαίνεσθαι πόλεως εἴωθε, τεχνιτῶν δὲ καὶ ἐπιδημιούργων πλῆθος ἐπαγαγὼν ῥᾷόν τε καὶ ἀπονώτερον τοῖς ἐνοικοῦσι παρέσχετο 2.10.23 δείμασθαι τὰς αὐτῶν ἰδίας οἰκίας. οὕτω τε Ἀντιόχειαν ἐπιφανεστέραν γεγονέναι τανῦν ἢ πρότερον ἦν ξυνηνέ2.10.24 χθη. ἀλλὰ καὶ ἱερὸν ἐνταῦθα τῇ θεοτόκῳ πεποίηται μέγα. οὗ δὴ τό τε κάλλος καὶ τὸ ἐς ἅπαντα μεγαλοπρεπὲς ἐπελθεῖν λόγῳ ἀμήχανον· ὃ δὴ καὶ προσόδῳ ἐτίμησε χρημά2.10.25 των μεγάλων. ἔτι μέντοι καὶ Μιχαὴλ τῷ ἀρχαγγέλῳ νεὼν παμμεγέθη ἐδείματο. προὐνόησε δὲ καὶ τῶν ἀρρωστήμασι πονουμένων ἐνταῦθα πτωχῶν, οἰκία τε σφίσι καὶ τὰ ἐς τὴν ἐπιμέλειαν καὶ τῶν νοσημάτων ἀπαλλαγὴν ἐν ἐπιτηδείῳ καταστησάμενος ἅπαντα, χωρὶς μὲν ἀνδράσι, χωρὶς δὲ γυναιξί, καὶ οὐδέν τι ἧσσον τοῖς ξένοις ἐπὶ καιροῦ γενομένοις ἐνταῦθα ἐνδήμοις. 2.11.1 Οὕτω δὲ καὶ Χαλκίδος πόλεως τὸν περίβολον, ἐπισφαλῶς τε ἀρχὴν γεγονότα καὶ ὑπὸ τῶν ἐτῶν κατερρακωμένον, σὺν τῷ προτειχίσματι ἀνανεωσάμενός τε καὶ πολλῷ ἐχυρώτερον καταστησάμενος ἢ πρότερον ἦν, ἐς τὸν νῦν φαινόμενον πεποίηται τρόπον. 2.11.2 Ἦν δέ τι ἐπὶ Συρίας κομιδῇ ἀπημελημένον πολίχνιον, Κῦρος ὄνομα, ὅπερ Ἰουδαῖοι ἐν τοῖς ἄνω χρόνοις ἐδείμαντο, δορυάλωτοι μὲν ἐκ Παλαιστίνης ἐς τὴν Ἀσσυρίαν ἀποκεκομισμένοι πρὸς τοῦ Μήδων στρατοῦ, παρὰ Κύρου δὲ βασιλέως ἀφειμένοι πολλῷ ὕστερον· διὸ δὴ καὶ Κῦρον τὸ χωρίον ἐκάλεσαν, ταῦτα τῷ εὐεργέτῃ ἐκτίνοντες χαρι2.11.3 στήρια. προϊόντος δὲ τοῦ χρόνου ἡ Κῦρος τά τε ἄλλα 2.11.4 ὑπερώφθη καὶ ἀτείχιστος ὅλως μεμένηκεν. ἀλλὰ βασιλεὺς Ἰουστινιανὸς ἅμα μὲν πρόνοιαν τῆς πολιτείας ποιούμενος, ἅμα δὲ καὶ τοὺς ἁγίους Κοσμᾶν τε καὶ ∆αμιανὸν τὰ μάλιστα σέβων, ὧν δὴ ἄγχιστά πη τὰ σώματα καὶ ἐς ἐμὲ κεῖται, πόλιν εὐδαίμονα καὶ λόγου ἀξίαν πολλοῦ, τείχους τε ἀσφαλείᾳ ἐχυρωτάτου καὶ φρουρῶν πλήθει καὶ οἰκοδομιῶν δημοσίων μεγέθει, καὶ τῆς ἄλλης κατασκευῆς τῷ ἐς ἄγαν μεγαλοπρεπεῖ, πεποίηται Κῦρον. 2.11.5 ταύτης δὲ τῆς πόλεως τὰ μὲν ἐντὸς ὕδατος ἄπορα ἐκ παλαιοῦ ἦν, ἔκτοσθε δὲ ὑπερφυής τις ἐγεγόνει πηγή, περιουσίᾳ μὲν πλήθουσα ποτίμων ὑδάτων, ἀνόνητος δὲ τοῖς τῇδε ᾠκημένοις παντάπασιν οὖσα, ἐπεὶ οὐκ εἶχον ὅθεν ἂν ἐνθένδε ἀρύοιντο ὕδωρ, ὅτι μὴ πόνῳ τε καὶ κινδύνῳ 2.11.6 μεγάλῳ. περιόδοις τε γὰρ αὐτόσε ἰοῦσιν ἀναγκαῖον ἐγίνετο χρῆσθαι, κρημνώδους χωρίου καὶ ὅλως ἀβάτου μεταξὺ ὄντος· καὶ τοῖς πολεμίοις, ἂν οὕτω τύχῃ, ἐνεδρεύου2.11.7 σιν ὑποχείριοι ῥᾷστα ἐγίγνοντο. διώρυχα τοίνυν ἔκτοσθε τῆς πόλεως ἄχρι ἐς τὴν κρήνην οὐκ ἀπαρακαλύπτως, ἀλλὰ κεκρυμμένως ὡς ἔνι μάλιστα πεποιημένος, ἄπονόν τε αὐτοῖς καὶ ἀκίνδυνον τὴν τοῦ ὕδατος παρέσχετο χρείαν. 2.11.8 Καὶ Χαλκίδος δὲ πόλεως τὸν περίβολον ὅλον, ἔς τε τὸ ἔδαφος καθειμένον καὶ ἄλλως ἀφύλακτον ὄντα, ἐχυρῷ διαφερόντως ἀνενεώσατο οἰκοδομίᾳ, καὶ προτειχίσματι 2.11.9 ἐκρατύνατο. ἔτι μέντοι καὶ τὰ ἄλλα Σύρων