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Byzantine emperor who held the eastern frontier of his empire against the Persians
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Justinian (, , after 525–582) was an East Roman ( Byzantine ) aristocrat and general, and a member of the ruling Justinian dynasty . As a soldier, he had a distinguished career in the Balkans and in the East against Sassanid Persia . In his later years, ...
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Justinian \Jus*tin"i*an\, a. Of or pertaining to the Institutes or laws of the Roman Justinian.
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The Roman Law, as digested by jurists under Justinian in the sixth Century, indeed, recognizes the unity of the race, asserts the equality of all men by the natural law, and undertakes to defend slavery on principles not incompatible with that equality.
In the language of ancient jurisprudence, which was corrupted and forgotten before the age of Justinian, these spoils were distinguished by the name of manceps or manicipium, taken with the hand.
But the ministers of Justinian, ^78 were instructed to labor, not for the curiosity of antiquarians, but for the immediate benefit of his subjects.
On the suspicion of a monopoly, they massacred the governor, and announced to Justinian, by a deputation of the clergy, that unless their offence was pardoned, and their arrears were satisfied, they should instantly accept the tempting offers of Totila.
The Basilics will sink to a broken copy, a partial and mutilated version, in the Greek language, of the laws of Justinian.
The Basilics will sink to a broken copy, a partial and mutilated version, in the Greek language, of the laws of Justinian.
They must therefore be considered as the basis of all the Roman jurisprudence comprehended in the Digest of Justinian.
Damascius, who lived under Justinian, composed another work, consisting of 570 praeternatural stories of souls, daemons, apparitions, the dotage of Platonic Paganism.
Before the age of Justinian, or perhaps of Diocletian, the decuries of Roman judges had sunk to an empty title: the humble advice of the assessors might be accepted or despised.
The subjects of Justinian, who escaped these partial vexations, were oppressed by the irregular maintenance of the soldiers, whom Alexander defrauded and despised.
The subjects of Justinian, who escaped these partial vexations, were oppressed by the irregular maintenance of the soldiers, whom Alexander defrauded and despised.
The altar of national concern, of annual sacrifice and oaths, which Diocletian had created in the Isla of Elephantine, was demolished by Justinian with less policy than] [Footnote 126: Procopius de Edificiis, l.
The fatal disease which depopulated the earth in the time of Justinian and his successors, ^88 first appeared in the neighborhood of Pelusium, between the Serbonian bog and the eastern channel of the Nile.
In this pious rebellion he depopulated Thrace, besieged Constantinople, exterminated sixty-five thousand of his fellow-Christians, till he obtained the recall of the bishops, the satisfaction of the pope, and the establishment of the council of Chalcedon, an orthodox treaty, reluctantly signed by the dying Anastasius, and more faithfully performed by the uncle of Justinian.
The fatal disease which depopulated the earth in the time of Justinian and his successors, ^88 first appeared in the neighborhood of Pelusium, between the Serbonian bog and the eastern channel of the Nile.