In the division of the Themes, or provinces
described by Constantine Porphyrogenitus, (de Thematibus, l.
i. p. 9, 10,) the Obsequium, a Latin appellation of the army
and palace, was the fourth in the public order. Nice was the
metropolis, and its jurisdiction extended from the
Hellespont over the adjacent parts of Bithynia and Phrygia,
(see the two maps prefixed by Delisle to the Imperium
Orientale of Banduri.)