Note 256 — Chapter I · CONSTANTINOPLE IN THE SIXTH CENTURY[3]
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Named the Cochlea or snail-shell; it seems to have been a favourite gangway for assassinating obnoxious courtiers; Jn. Malala, p. 344; Chron. Pasch., an. 380; Theophanes, an. 5969; Codin., p. 112, etc.