277) relates the dream of a matron, who saw an army in the forum, and a man sitting on the column, clapping his hands, and uttering a loud exclamation.

* Note: We read in the "Chronicle of the Conquest of Constantinople, and of the Establishment of the French in the Morea," translated by J A Buchon, Paris, 1825, p.

64 that Leo VI., called the Philosopher, had prophesied that a perfidious emperor should be precipitated from the top of this column.

The crusaders considered themselves under an obligation to fulfil this prophecy.

Brosset, note on Le Beau, vol.xvii.p.