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having made it walled, he populated it; where indeed he also built baths and guest-houses, and a very great number of houses and all other things which naturally mark a distinguished city. 4.10.22 But he also fortified the city called Callipolis most securely, since it had been left unfortified, abandoned 4.10.23 by men of former times in their reliance on the Long Walls. where indeed he also built granaries and wine-cellars, sufficient for the entire supply of the soldiers in the Chersonese. 4.10.24 There is a certain ancient city opposite Abydus, Sestus by name, it too in former times lying neglected, and having no fortification 4.10.25 whatsoever. But a certain exceedingly steep hill rises above it; where indeed he built a fort altogether 4.10.26 inaccessible, and impossible to capture, if anyone should attempt it. And not far from Sestus happens to be Elaeus. And a rock, broken off, rises there from the sea, raising a peak 4.10.27 high as heaven and fortified by nature. So on this spot this emperor built a fort, both difficult to approach and 4.10.28 completely unassailable by those who came against it. But he also established the fort at Thescus on the other side of the long wall, strengthening it with a very strong circuit-wall; and in this way he himself secured safety from all sides for the people of Chersonese. 4.11.1 After Chersonese is situated the city of Aenus, named for the name of its founder. For it was Aeneas, 4.11.2 as they say, the son of Anchises. The circuit-wall of this city was easy to capture because it was low; for it did not have even the 4.11.3 necessary height; and it had a certain wide-open entrance in the vicinity of the sea, with the surf itself somehow touching 4.11.4 upon it. But the Emperor Justinian raised it to a height, such that it was impossible not only to capture it, but 4.11.5 even to make an attempt. And extending it and fencing it in on all sides, he made 4.11.6 Aenus altogether impregnable. And in this way the city became secure; but the countryside remained easy for the barbarians to overrun; since 4.11.7 Rhodope from of old had been lacking in fortifications. There was a certain village in the interior, Bellurus by name, in power of wealth and population equal to a city, yet because it was in no way walled, it continually supplied the plundering barbarians, suffering the same thing along with the fields lying around it, many 4.11.8 though they were. And this emperor both made this a city and surrounded it with a wall, and made it 4.11.9 worthy of himself. And indeed, whatever of the other cities in Rhodope happened with time to be lacking or to have fallen into ruin, with all 4.11.10 diligence he restored. among which are Trajanopolis and Maximianopolis, of which he repaired the parts of the outworks that had become unsound. These things, then, have been done here. 4.11.11 And Anastasiopolis, which is here, was walled also before, but lying on the coast it had its shore unguarded. The ships putting in here often, you may be sure, suddenly became subject to the barbarian Huns; so that from here the islands lying off the country 4.11.12 they also harassed. But the Emperor Justinian, by enclosing the entire shore with a cross-wall, for both the ships 4.11.13 and for the islanders recovered safety. But also the aqueduct for water from the mountains which rise here, 4.11.14 all the way to the city, he raised to an enormous height. There is a certain ancient city in Rhodope, Toperus by name, which for the most part is surrounded by the streams of a river, and it had a steep hill rising over it. From which, indeed, not long 4.11.15 before, it was captured by the barbarian Sclaveni. But the Emperor Justinian added great height to the circuit-wall; so that it overtops the hill by as much as it was formerly lower 4.11.16 than it. And he erected a gallery in the vaulted wall, from which the defenders of the city fight in safety against those assaulting the wall, and each of the towers he prepared to be a strong fort. 4.11.17 But also the area from the circuit-wall to the river he strengthened by enclosing it with a cross-wall. These things, then, have been done here by the Emperor Justinian. 4.11.18 And whatever fortifications have been built by him both in the rest of Thrace and in what is now called Haemimontus, I 4.11.19 shall declare. First, then

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