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POMPEIANA. 55
over the adjacent country, and alarm
throughout the rest of Europe, the surface
of which was covered with an impalpable
powder1. At Constantinople the falling
cinders, at one time, struck such panic ter-
ror into the superstitious mind of the pusil-
lanimous emperor, that, leaving the city,
which he deemed devoted to divine wrath,
he betook himself to St. Mamasz; and the
day was ordained to. be for ever annually
marked by supplication. St. Januarius*
was supposed on this occasion to have '
quelled the fury of the volcano, it being
the first time he is said to have appeared.,
1 An impalpable powder of this description fell in rail*
during a procession of St. Nicholas, February, 1813, when
the writer was at Zante. It tinged linen on which it fell of
an ochreous yellow; after the shower the deposition lay on
the decks of the ships in the bay in considerable quantity.
2 Sigonius, Imp. Occident, lib. xiv. In a separated
quarter of the city there was a church, palace, bridge, and
hippodrome of St. Mamas. In the latter, one Andreas was
whipt to death by order of the pious emperor Constantine
Iconomachus, for excelling in the art of sculpture.
' Baronius.
over the adjacent country, and alarm
throughout the rest of Europe, the surface
of which was covered with an impalpable
powder1. At Constantinople the falling
cinders, at one time, struck such panic ter-
ror into the superstitious mind of the pusil-
lanimous emperor, that, leaving the city,
which he deemed devoted to divine wrath,
he betook himself to St. Mamasz; and the
day was ordained to. be for ever annually
marked by supplication. St. Januarius*
was supposed on this occasion to have '
quelled the fury of the volcano, it being
the first time he is said to have appeared.,
1 An impalpable powder of this description fell in rail*
during a procession of St. Nicholas, February, 1813, when
the writer was at Zante. It tinged linen on which it fell of
an ochreous yellow; after the shower the deposition lay on
the decks of the ships in the bay in considerable quantity.
2 Sigonius, Imp. Occident, lib. xiv. In a separated
quarter of the city there was a church, palace, bridge, and
hippodrome of St. Mamas. In the latter, one Andreas was
whipt to death by order of the pious emperor Constantine
Iconomachus, for excelling in the art of sculpture.
' Baronius.