D.

DELPHIC TRIPOS, 111

DENTILS, is a Member of the _Ionic Cornice_, Square, and cut out at proper Distances, which gives it the Form of a Set of Teeth, 242

DICERATON; a Tax laid upon the People for Repairing the Walls of the City, 68

DIGIT; this is a Measure somewhat short of an Inch, 104

DIVAN, it signifies the _Forum Judiciale_ of the _Turks_, 38

E.

EMERALD, of a large Size, 160

ENTABLATURE; this Word denotes the three Members of Architecture, _viz._ the _Architrave_, _Frieze_, and _Cornice_, 113

EXACIONION; this was a Place, thro’ which there ran the Land-Wall of the City, 218

EXAMMON _of_ HERACLIUS, or Ἐξάμον. This is a Word which is _Greeciz’d_ from the Latin _Examen_, and signifies a Standard Measure appointed by that Emperour, 141

F.

FACTIONS. These were Company of Chariot-racers. There were four Companies of them at Old _Rome_. At _Constantinople_, (as far as I have observ’d, or at least not mention’d by _Gyllius_) but only One, which was called the _Prasine Faction_, because they wore a _Green_ Livery. The Word _Prasine_ is deriv’d from Πράσον, a _Leek_, 116, 117

FASCIAE. These are three _Bands_ in Architecture, of which the _Architrave_ is compos’d, 242

FRIEZE. The round Part of the _Entablature_, which is between the _Architrave_, and the _Cornice_, 253

Forum of _Arcadius_, 257 Of _Augustus_, 83 Of _Constantine_, 171 _Cupedinis_, 153 Of _Honorius_, 275 _Forum Pistorium_, 195 _Forum Prætorianum_, or the Court of Publick Justice, 170 _Forum_ in the _Taurus_, and the _Forum_ of _Theodosius_, 169

G.

GALATA, now called _Sycæ_ and _Pera_, its Situation, 264

GATES, of _Constantinople_, 70

GRAND-HETAERIARCH, Commander of the prime Auxiliary Band; for there were two such Bands under the _Greek_ Emperors, the One called the ἡ μεγάλη, the other ἡ μικρὰ ἑταιρεία i. e. the Greater and Lesser Band of Auxiliaries. The Commander of the former was ὁ μεγάλης ἑταιρείας Ἄρχων, or sometimes in one Word Μεγαλεταιρειάρχης, 230

See _Codinus_.

GYMNASIA, Places where they exercis’d themselves in Martial Sports, 158

H.

HIPPOCUM, 290. This I take to be the same with the _Hyppodrom_.

HIPPODROM, the Place where they perform’d their Races of all Kinds, 103

HOMER, his _Iliads_ and _Odysses_ inscrib’d, in Golden Characters, on the Gut of a Dragon, 144

HOSPITAL of _Sampson_, and _Eubulus_, 100

HYPOTRACHELION, this is the most slender Part, or _Neck_ of the Pillar, which touches the _Capital_, 263

INTERCOLUMNIATION, the Distance of one Pillar from another, 147