Both Uses of
Constantinople
in
The Plague
- The doctor remembered the plague at Constantinople that, according to Procopius, caused ten thousand deaths in a single day.†
Part 1 *Constantinople = capital of the Byzantium Empire (also known as the Eastern Roman Empire)
- the damp, putrefying pallets stuck to the mud floor at the Constantinople lazar-house, where the patients were hauled up from their beds with hooks;†
Part 1
Definition:
capital of the Byzantium Empire (also known as the Eastern Roman Empire); Constantine renamed the city of Byzantium to Constantinople in the fourth century; in 1930 Turkey renamed it to Istanbul