Yet how dull is the artifice, how insignificant is the labor, if it be compared with the formation of the vilest insect that crawls upon the surface of the temple! [Footnote 103: Among the crowd of ancients and moderns who have celebrated the edifice of St.Sophia, I shall distinguish and follow, 1.

Four original spectators and historians: Procopius, (de Edific.l.i.c.

1,) Agathias, (l.v.p.

152, 153,) Paul Silentiarius, (in a poem of 1026 hexameters, and calcem Annae Commen.

Alexiad.,) and Evagrius, (l.iv.c.