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(De Topographia Constantinopoleos 2.7)
There is nothing of the Zeuxippum remaining at present, nor of many other fine baths; although we have many inscriptions relating to them, as, for example, that famous one celebrated by Agathius, in which Venus is said to have bathed herself; or another called Didymum, in which both sexes used to wash, described in verse by Paulus Silentarius, and a third made memorable by an inscription of the learned Leontius. Besides these, there was another named Cupido, described by the ingenious Marianus; yet all of them are either entirely ruined or so defaced by the Mohametans that you cannot discover who built them or to whom they belonged.
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