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(On the Magistracies 3.70)
(On the Nika of January 532) ... the multitude rebelled and, having united in one ill-starred design, burned almost the entire city. And the Cappadocian disappeared, but the fire got its start at the gates of the court. Then from there it spread to the First Temple. From the latter it leapt to the council-house of Julian called Senatus after the Assembly Hall of Augustus. From this it proceeded to the forum called Zeuxippus after King Zeuxippus, under whom, in the thirty-eighth Olympiad, Megarians who had emigrated to Byzantium called the forum thus in his honour, just as the Megarians who had colonized Cyzicus named the Arcades of Charidemus after him. The latter, too, is mentioned as having reigned over the Greeks, as Castor recorded in his Epitome of Annals. As for the public bath, it was named Severeum after Severus, a commander of the Romans, who, because he was afflicted with an illness of the joints, had the bath built for himself while he was tarrying in Thrace on account of his dispute with Niger. When structures of such grandeur had been turned into flames, the colonnades which lined the city all the way up to the Forum of Constantine and shaded the broad street with graceful contours by the beauty and size of their columns were inescapably caught up.
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