[Footnote 62: The distance from Constantinople to
Melanthias, Villa Caesariana, (Ammian. Marcellin. xxx. 11,)
is variously fixed at 102 or 140 stadia, (Suidas, tom. ii.
p. 522, 523. Agathias, l. v. p. 158,) or xviii. or xix.
miles, (Itineraria, p. 138, 230, 323, 332, and Wesseling's
Observations.) The first xii. miles, as far as Rhegium, were
paved by Justinian, who built a bridge over a morass or
gullet between a lake and the sea, (Procop. de Edif. l. iv.
c. 8.)]