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Headword:
Stauros
Adler number: sigma,1010
Translated headword: cross
Vetting Status: high
Translation: In the Northern part of the Forum [sc. of Constantinople] there stood a cross, as Constantine saw it in the sky, covered with gold, with golden apples on the extremities; there also he himself and his sons were seen plated with gold.
Greek Original:Stauros: epi to Boreion tou Phorou meros stauros histato, hôs eiden auton Kônstantinos en tôi ouranôi, chrusemplastos, en tois akrôtêriakois strongulois mêlois: entha kai autos kai hoi huioi autou kathorônto chrusembaphoi.
Notes:
ps.-Codinus,
Patria Constantinopoleos 2.18 (Preger,
Scriptores originum Constantinopolitanarum 160.16-20).
For Constantine see generally
kappa 2284. On the Forum of Constantinople, see
phi 614.
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Translated by: Catharine Roth on 21 September 2006@00:17:36.
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