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The Age of Justinian and Theodora, Volume 1 (of 2

Note 324 — Chapter I · CONSTANTINOPLE IN THE SIXTH CENTURY[3]

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This aqueduct seems to have been built originally by Hadrian, restored by Valens, who used for the purpose the walls of Chalcedon as a punishment for that town having taken the part of the usurper Procopius, and again restored by Theodosius I. Hence it is denoted by the names of each of these emperors at different times; Socrates, iv, 8; Zonaras, xiii, 16; and the Codes, loc. cit.

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