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to the emperor, erecting it outside his own praetorium, having written beneath it, To the Good Constantine. which bronze column stands to this day. And the same emperor in the same great city 319 of the Antiochenes first appointed a Count of the East during the consulate of Illus and Albinus, making the temple of the Muses his praetorium, filling the place in the East of the praetorian prefect, named Felicianus, a Christian, granting to the same city of the Antiochenes by his divine decree the rights of the dignity of a second comitatus, it being the 383rd year according to the great city of the Antiochenes. For formerly there was not a resident Count of the East in the same great Antioch, but when a war was stirred up, a delegatus was seated in Antioch of Syria, and when the war ceased, the delegatus was removed. And the emperor Constantine departed from Antioch, leaving Rufinus the prefect; which Rufinus, having made an effort, completed the basilica; and for this reason it was called the Rufiniana. And the emperor Constantine sent his own mother, the lady Helena, to Jerusalem in search of the precious cross; who, having found it, brought up the same precious cross with the five nails; and from that time all things of the Christians prospered. And the same emperor also made Palaestina Tertia a province. and during his reign what was once Byzantium was dedicated, during the consulate of Gallicanus and Symmachus, the same emperor Constantine holding a processio for a long time, having come from Rome to Byzantium; who also renewed the former 320 wall of the same city of Byzas and, adding another great length to the wall, and joining it to the old wall of the same city, commanded it to be called Constantinople, completing also the Hippodrome and adorning it with bronze works and every excellence, building in it also a royal viewing box in the likeness of the one in Rome. He also built a great and beautiful palace, likewise in the likeness of the one of Rome, near the Hippodrome, the ascent from the palace to the kathisma of the Hippodrome being through the so-called Kochlias, building also a great and very beautiful forum, and erecting in the middle a column of solid porphyry, a wonder to behold, and on top of the same column he erected a statue of himself, having seven rays on its head; which bronze work he brought from where it was standing in Ilium, a city of Phrygia. And the same Constantine, having secretly taken from Rome the so-called Palladium, a wooden statue, placed it in the forum built by him, beneath the base of his column, as some of the Byzantines say that it lies there. And having made a bloodless sacrifice to God for the Tyche of the city renewed by him and founded in his name, he called it Anthousa. which city was founded from the beginning by Phidalia; and she then called its Tyche Keroe. And this same Phidalia was taken to wife by Byzas the king of Thrace 321 after the death of Barbysios her father, the toparch and guardian of the same trading-post. Which Barbysios, when he was about to die, ordered Phidalia to build a wall for the place as far as the sea. And Byzas, having called the country by his own name, reigned in the same city. He also built two porticoes from the entrance of the palace to the same forum, beautiful and adorned with statues and various marbles, calling the place of the porticoes Regia, building nearby also a basilica and outside it great columns and statues, which he called the Senate, erecting opposite it for his own mother Helena a column of an Augusta on a small porphyry pillar, calling the place Augustaeum. Likewise he also completed the public bath called the Zeuxippus, adorning it with columns and variegated marbles and bronze works; for he found it incomplete, having been begun formerly by the emperor Severus

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βασιλεῖ, στήσας αὐτὴν ἔξω τοῦ πραιτωρίου αὑτοῦ, γράψας ὑποκάτω αὐτῆς, Βόνω Κωνσταντίνω. ἥτις στήλη χαλκῆ ἵσταται ἕως τῆς νῦν. Προηγάγετο δὲ ὁ αὐτὸς βασιλεὺς ἐν τῇ αὐτῇ μεγάλῃ πόλει 319 τῶν Ἀντιοχέων πρώτοις κόμητα ἀνατολῆς ἐπὶ τῆς ὑπατείας Ἴλλου καὶ Ἀλβίνου, ποιήσας αὐτῷ πραιτώριον τὸ ἱερὸν τῶν Μουσῶν, πληροῦντα τὸν τόπον ἐν τῇ ἀνατολῇ τοῦ ἐπάρχου τῶν πραιτωρίων, ὀνόματι Φηλικιανὸν χριστιανόν, χαρισάμενος τῇ αὐτῇ πόλει τῶν Ἀντιοχέων διὰ θείου αὐτοῦ τύπου δικαιώματα ἀξίας δευτέρου κομετάτου, τοῦ τπγʹ ἔτους χρηματίζοντος κατὰ τὴν μεγάλην τῶν Ἀντιοχέων πόλιν. οὐκ ἦν γὰρ πρῴην ἐν τῇ αὐτῇ μεγάλῃ Ἀντιοχείᾳ κόμης ἀνατολῆς ἐγκάθετος, ἀλλὰ κατὰ πόλεμον κινούμενον δηληγάτωρ ἐκάθητο ἐν Ἀντιοχείᾳ τῆς Συρίας, καὶ ὅτε ἐπαύθη ὁ πόλεμος, ἐκουφίζετο ὁ δηληγάτωρ. ὁ δὲ βασιλεὺς Κωνσταντῖνος ἐξῆλθεν ἀπὸ Ἀντιοχείας, ἐάσας Ῥουφῖνον τὸν ἔπαρχον· ὅστις Ῥουφῖνος σπουδάσας ἀνεπλήρωσε τὴν βασιλικήν· καὶ διὰ τοῦτο ἐκλήθη ἡ Ῥουφίνου. Ὁ δὲ βασιλεὺς Κωνσταντῖνος ἔπεμψε τὴν ἑαυτοῦ μητέρα τὴν κυρὰν Ἑλένην εἰς Ἱεροσόλυμα εἰς ἀναζήτησιν τοῦ τιμίου σταυροῦ· ἥτις καὶ εὑροῦσα ἀνήγαγε τὸν αὐτὸν τίμιον σταυρὸν μετὰ τῶν πέντε ἥλων· καὶ ηὐξήθη ἐξ ἐκείνου τὰ τῶν χριστιανῶν πάντα. Ὁ δὲ αὐτὸς βασιλεὺς καὶ τρίτην Παλαιστίνην ἐποίησεν ἐπαρχίαν. καὶ ἐπὶ τῆς αὐτοῦ βασιλείας ἐνεκαινίσθη τό ποτε Βυζάντιον ἐπὶ τῆς ὑπατείας Γαλλιανοῦ καὶ Συμμάχου, τοῦ αὐτοῦ δὲ βασιλέως Κωνσταντίνου ποιήσαντος πρόκεσσον ἐπὶ πολὺν χρόνον, ἀπὸ Ῥώμης ἐλθόντος ἐν τῷ Βυζαντίῳ· ὅστις καὶ τὸ πρῴην τεῖ 320 χος τῆς αὐτῆς πόλεως ἀνενέωσε τοῦ Βύζου καὶ προσθεὶς ἄλλο διάστημα πολὺ τῷ τείχει, καὶ συνάψας τῷ παλαιῷ τείχει τῆς αὐτῆς πόλεως, ἐκέλευσεν αὐτὴν Κωνσταντινούπολιν λέγεσθαι, ἀναπληρώσας καὶ τὸ Ἱππικὸν καὶ κοσμήσας αὐτὸ χαλκουργήμασι καὶ πάσῃ ἀρετῇ, κτίσας ἐν αὐτῷ καὶ κάθισμα θεωρίου βασιλικοῦ καθ' ὁμοιότητα τοῦ ἐν Ῥώμῃ ὄντος. ἔκτισε δὲ καὶ παλάτιον μέγα καὶ εὐπρεπὲς καθ' ὁμοιότητα ὡσαύτως τοῦ Ῥώμης πλησίον τοῦ Ἱππικοῦ, τὴν ἄνοδον ἀπὸ τοῦ παλατίου εἰς τὸ κάθισμα τοῦ Ἱππικοῦ διὰ τοῦ λεγομένου Κοχλίου, κτίσας καὶ φόρον μέγαν καὶ εὐπρεπῆ πάνυ, καὶ στήσας ἐν τῷ μέσῳ κίονα ὁλοπόρφυρον ἄξιον θαύματος, καὶ ἐπάνω τοῦ αὐτοῦ κίονος ἑαυτῷ ἔστησεν ἀνδριάντα, ἔχοντα ἐν τῇ κεφαλῇ αὐτοῦ ἀκτῖνας ἑπτά· ὅπερ χαλκούργημα ἤγαγεν εἰς τὸ Ἴλιον ἑστηκός, πόλιν τῆς Φρυγίας. ὁ δὲ αὐτὸς Κωνσταντῖνος ἀφελόμενος ἀπὸ Ῥώμης κρύφα τὸ λεγόμενον Παλλάδιον ξόανον, ἔθηκεν αὐτὸ εἰς τὸν ὑπ' αὐτοῦ κτισθέντα φόρον ὑποκάτω τοῦ κίονος τῆς στήλης αὐτοῦ, ὥς τινες λέγουσι τῶν Βυζαντίων ὅτι ἐκεῖ κεῖται. τὴν δὲ τύχην τῆς πόλεως τῆς ὑπ' αὐτοῦ ἀνανεωθείσης καὶ εἰς ὄνομα αὐτοῦ κτισθείσης ποιήσας τῷ θεῷ θυσίαν ἀναίμακτον ἐκάλεσεν Ἄνθουσαν. ἥτις πόλις ἐκτίσθη ἐξ ἀρχῆς ὑπὸ Φιδαλίας· καὶ ἐκάλεσε τότε τὴν τύχην αὐτῆς Κηρώην. τὴν δὲ αὐτὴν Φιδαλίαν ἠγάγετο Βύζας ὁ τῆς Θρᾴκης βα 321 σιλεὺς μετὰ τὴν τελευτὴν Βαρβυσίου τοῦ πατρὸς αὐτῆς, τοῦ τοπάρχου καὶ φύλακος τοῦ αὐτοῦ ἐμπορίου. ὅστις Βαρβύσιος μέλλων τελευτᾶν ἐκέλευσε τὴν Φιδαλίαν ποιῆσαι τεῖχος τῷ τόπῳ ἕως θαλάσσης. ὁ δὲ Βύζας εἰς τὸ ἑαυτοῦ ὄνομα καλέσας τὴν χώραν ἐβασίλευσεν ἐν τῇ αὐτῇ πόλει. Ἔκτισε δὲ δύο ἐμβόλους ἀπὸ τῆς εἰσόδου τοῦ παλατίου ἕως τοῦ αὐτοῦ φόρου εὐπρεπεῖς καὶ κεκοσμημένους ἀνδριᾶσι καὶ μαρμάροις διαφόροις, καλέσας τὸν τόπον τῶν ἐμβόλων Ῥηγίαν, κτίσας ἐγγὺς καὶ βασιλικὴν καὶ ἔξω μεγάλους κίονας καὶ ἀνδριάντας, ἥνπερ ἐκάλεσε Σενᾶτον, κατέναντι στήσας τῇ ἰδίᾳ μητρὶ Ἑλένῃ στήλην Αὐγούστας ἐν πορφυρῷ μικρῷ κίονι, καλέσας τὸν τόπον Αὐγουστιῶνα. ὁμοίως δὲ ἀνεπλήρωσε καὶ τὸ λεγόμενον Ζεύξιππον δημόσιον λουτρόν, κοσμήσας κίοσι καὶ μαρμάροις ποικίλοις καὶ χαλκουργήμασιν· εὗρε γὰρ αὐτὸ ἀπλήρωτον, ἀρχθὲν μὲν πρῴην ὑπὸ Σεβήρου βασιλέως