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(Dindorf 494-95)
And when after many years Severus came from Rome to Byzantium in this year of his reign he saw that the setting of the city was beautiful and he rebuilt the city of Byzos and founded in it the public bath (demosion loutron) named 'Zeuxippos' and there stood in the middle of the Tetrastoon a brazen statue of Helios and underneath it he wrote the name of Helios Zeuxippos. The Thracians call the place 'Helios' whereas the people from the city of Byzantium themselves call the same 'Zeuxippian public bath' after the name that the place had before and they no longer, as the emperor had said, call it after his own name 'Severian'.
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