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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;EWC3, post: 4362280, member: 93416&quot;]Found it - Sozoman c. 450 AD</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.documentacatholicaomnia.eu/03d/0450-0450,_Salaminus_Hermias_Sozomenus,_The_Ecclesiastical_History_[Schaff],_EN.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.documentacatholicaomnia.eu/03d/0450-0450,_Salaminus_Hermias_Sozomenus,_The_Ecclesiastical_History_[Schaff],_EN.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.documentacatholicaomnia.eu/03d/0450-0450,_Salaminus_Hermias_Sozomenus,_The_Ecclesiastical_History_[Schaff],_EN.pdf</a></p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;The emperor, always intent on the advancement of religion, erected the most beautiful temples to God in every place, particularly in metropolises, such as Nicomedia in Bithynia, Antioch on the river Orontes, and Byzantium. He greatly improved this latter city, and constituted it the equal of Rome in power, and participation in the government; for, when he had settled the affairs of the empire according to his own mind, and had rectified foreign affairs by wars and treaties, he resolved upon founding a city which should be called by his own name, and should be equal in celebrity to Rome. With this intention, he repaired to a plain at the foot of Troy, near the Hellespont, above the tomb of Ajax, where, it is said, the Achaians had their naval stations and tents while besieging Troy; and here he laid the plan of a large and beautiful city.......&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>I now also find the Chronicle of Fredegar c. 642 AD</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/12687/1/Yavuz_N_K_Medieval_Studies_PhD_2015.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/12687/1/Yavuz_N_K_Medieval_Studies_PhD_2015.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/12687/1/Yavuz_N_K_Medieval_Studies_PhD_2015.pdf</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Sheesh - missed again - she was just up the road from me 5 years back!</p><p><br /></p><p>Rob T[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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