42. Constantinopolis dedicatur poene omnium urbium nuditate.
Hieronym. Chron. p. 181. See Codinus, p. 8, 9 [p. 16 sq. ed.
Bonn]. The author of the Antiquitat. Const. l. iii. (apud
Banduri Imp. Orient. tom. i. p. 41) enumerates Rome, Sicily,
Antioch, Athens, and a long list of other cities. The
provinces of Greece and Asia Minor may be supposed to have
yielded the richest booty.