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they seize the theatre, acclaiming him, and they sought a purple robe and a crown. While the demes were occupied with these things, those around the emperor succeeded by the distribution of much money in suborning many of the Blues, and thus, having destroyed the concord of the demes, they made them move against one another. Then indeed, suddenly from the palace the chamberlains 156 of the rulers rushed forth armed, and from the city other soldiers and the barbarians burst in, and they mowed down the crowds like grass without mercy, which were already rioting against each other; for the theatre was full of people, some belonging to the party of the rioters, but the majority gathered to watch the events and the proclamation of Hypatius. And having seized Hypatius and Pompeius his brother, they brought them to the emperor, who were both put to death and their property was confiscated. The number of those of the people who were killed was estimated to be about forty thousand. And not only was the property of the two men mentioned confiscated, but also that of many other senators; and they were punished in various ways. During this revolt, as has been said, the great church, of which Constantius was the builder, having been burned down, the emperor Justinian began to build a new one, much larger and more splendid, the construction of it having begun in the 40th year, in the fifteenth indiction, which fell in the month of February. 157 Not only of this holy house did that emperor begin the construction, but also of many others, for which he, needing infinite sums of money, cut off by decrees of the prefect the stipends formerly established to be given in each of the cities to the teachers of the liberal arts. And thus, as the schools in the cities ceased, boorishness prevailed in them. And indeed in the seventeenth year of his reign the great column, which is set up in the forecourt of the great church, was completed, on which this emperor erected an equestrian statue of himself, where formerly stood another column of the great Theodosius bearing a statue made of silver by his son Arcadius, weighing seven thousand four hundred pounds, which he took down along with the column and, having removed the silver, he erected the column now seen with his own statue. But he also demolished a very large conduit made of lead, through which water was brought into the city, needing much of this material for his buildings. 158 And at that time a very violent earthquake happened, from which half of Cyzicus collapsed. It is related that someone then visited Byzantium leading a miracle-working dog; for when many were gathered to see it, several of them would give their own rings, and all were placed together before the dog. And it was ordered by its master to give to each his own, and taking them one by one in its mouth, it unerringly delivered to each his own. And again it was ordered to show who was rich, and who was poor, or who of the women was a prostitute, or which a widow, and which was joined to a husband, and other such things, and it pointed out all of them without fail, holding the garment of each in its mouth according to the question. However, in the tenth year of the reign of Justinian, when the patriarch Epiphanius died, Anthimus of Trebizond was transferred to the priestly throne of Constantinople. This emperor also raged greatly against pederasts and punished many for this reason, 159 cutting out their genitals. And to one who asked "Why do you punish sodomites in this way?" he said, "If they had committed sacrilege, would I not have cut off their hands?" This man also erected the great church of the Theotokos at the Pege and the shrine of the holy martyrs Sergius and Bacchus and made many other buildings, and he built a bridge over the Sangarius river, on which there was also this epigram by Agathias; and you, with the high-necked Hesperian and with the Median nations

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