51. Zeuxippus was an epithet of Jupiter, and the baths were
a part of old Byzantium. The difficulty of assigning their
true situation has not been felt by Ducange. History seems
to connect them with St. Sophia and the palace; but the
original plan inserted in Banduri places them on the other
side of the city, near the harbour. For their beauties see
Chron. Paschal, p. 285, and Gyllius de Byzant. 1. ii. c. 7.
Christodorus (see Antiquitat. Const. l. vii.) composed
inscriptions in verse for each of the statues. He was a
Theban poet in genius as well as in birth:-
Boeotum in crasso jurares aere natum.