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CHAPTER XVII: Foundation Of Constantinople
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Godefroy has collected every circumstance of antiquity relative to the Cappadocian horses.

One of the finest breeds, the Palmatian, was the forfeiture of a rebel, whose estate lay about sixteen miles from Tyana, near the great road between Constantinople and Antioch.] [Footnote 156: Justinian (Novell.

30) subjected the province of the count of Cappadocia to the immediate authority of the favorite eunuch, who presided over the sacred bed-chamber.] [Footnote 157: Cod.Theod.l.vi.tit.

xxx.leg.4, &c.] [Footnote 158: Pancirolus, p.

102, 136.


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