Note 056
From Chapter 53 of the Decline & Fall


For all these ceremonies, see the professed work of Constantine Porphyrogenitus with the notes, or rather dissertations, of his German editors, Leich and Reiske. For the rank of standing courtiers, p. 80, not. 23, 62; for the adoration, except on Sundays, p. 95, 240, not. 131; the processions, p. 2, etc., not. p. 3, etc.; the acclamations passim not. 25 etc.; the factions and Hippodrome, p. 177 - 214, not. 9, 93, etc.; the Gothic games, p. 221, not. 111; vintage, p. 217, not 109: much more information is scattered over the work.

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