The difficulty of assigning their true situation has not been felt by Ducange.

History seems to connect them with St.
Sophia and the palace; but the original plan inserted in Banduri places them on the other side of the city, near the harbor.

For their beauties, see Chron.Paschal.p.285, and Gyllius de Byzant.l.ii.c.

7.
Christodorus (see Antiquitat.Const.l.

vii.) composed inscriptions in verse for each of the statues.