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(Chronicle 12.20)
When Severus came to Byzantion and found that the situation of the city was good, he restored Byzoupolis and built a public Bath known as the Zeuxippon because a bronze statue of Helios (the sun) stood there in the middle of the Tetrastoon. On its base was inscribed the mystic name of the sun, 'To the horse-yoking (Zeuxippos) god', for that is what the Thracians called the sun. So the people of the city of Byzas used to call the public bath Zeuxippon after the original name of the place, and they no longer used the name Severium which the emperor had given it after himself. The emperor Severus added the public bath, which he built, to the Tetrastoon, in the middle of which stood the statue of Helios.
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