[Footnote 3: Nicephorus Gregoras has described the Colossus
of Justinian, (l. vii. 12:) but his measures are false and
inconsistent. The editor Boivin consulted his friend
Girardon; and the sculptor gave him the true proportions of
an equestrian statue. That of Justinian was still visible
to Peter Gyllius, not on the column, but in the outward
court of the seraglio; and he was at Constantinople when it
was melted down, and cast into a brass cannon, (de
Topograph. C. P. l. ii. c. 17.)]