Note 136 — BOOK XI.

The eleventh and twelfth volumes of the Memoirs of the Royal Society of Gottingen contain a beautiful work of the illustrious Heyne, upon the monuments of art that have existed at Constantinople. In the first memoir he gives the nomenclature of the ancient monuments,—Priscæ Artis Opera. In the second those that were erected under the emperors of Byzantium. In two other memoirs, the same learned author describes the loss of these same monuments: De Interitu Operum cum antiquæ tam verioris ætatis.