[Footnote 4: See the decay and repairs of St. Sophia, in
Nicephorus Gregoras (l. vii. 12, l. xv. 2.) The building was
propped by Andronicus in 1317, the eastern hemisphere fell
in 1345. The Greeks, in their pompous rhetoric, exalt the
beauty and holiness of the church, an earthly heaven the
abode of angels, and of God himself, &c.]