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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Belisa'rius (search)
ever produced. He was born about A. D. 505 (comp. Procop. Goth. 1.5, Pers. 1.12) at Germania, a town of Illyria. (Procop. Vand. 1.11, de Aedif. 4.1.) His public life is so much mixed up with the history of the times, that it need not here be given except in outline, and his private life is known to us only through the narrative of the licentiousness and intrigues of his unworthy wife Antonina in the Secret History of Procopius. He first appears as a young man in the service of Justinian under the emperor Justin I. A. D. 520-527 (Procop. Pers. 1.12), and on the accession of the former, was made general of the Eastern armies, to check the inroads of the Persians, A. D. 529-532 (Procop. Pers. 1.13-21); shortly after which he married Antonina, a woman of wealth and rank, but of low birth and morals, and following the profession of an actress. (Procop. Hist. Arcan. 4, 5.) The two great scenes of his history were the wars against the Vandals in Africa, and against the Ostrogoths in Italy.
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Constanti'nus (search)
Constanti'nus a JURIST, a contemporary of Justinian. In A. D. 528, he was one of the commissioners appointed to form the first code. He was then, and in A. D. 529, when the first code was confirmed, mentioned by Justinian with several official titles: vir illustris, comes sacrarum largitionum inter agentes, et magister scrinii libellorum et sacrarum cognitionum. (Const. Haec quae necessario, § 1, Const. Summa Reipublicae, § 2.) A Second Constantinus who was an advocate at Constantinople A person of the same name, who is described as an advocate at Constantinople, without any of these official titles, was one of the commissioners appointed to compile the Digest, A. D. 530 (Const. tanta, § 9), and was also one of the commissioners appointed to draw up that new edition of the Code which now forms part of the Corpus Juris. (Const. Cordi, § 2.) Works Edicts Editions In the collection of Edicta Praefectorum Praetorio, first published by Zachariae (Anecdota, Lips. 1843) from a Bod
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Epipha'nius (search)
putation, equivalent to A. D. 519 or probably 520 of the common era; the account, transmitted only four days after his ordination, to pope Hormisdas, by the deacon Dioscurus, then at Constantinople, as one of the legates of the Roman see, given by Labbe (Concilia, vol. iv. p. 1523), was received at Rome on the 7th of April, A. D. 520, which must therefore have been the year of his election. He occupied the see from A. D. 520 till his death in A. D. 535. Theophanes places his death in June, A. D. 529, Alex. comput. = A. D. 536 of the common era, after a patriarchate of sixteen years and three months; but Pagi (Critic. in Baronii Annales ad ann. 535, No. lviii.) shortens this calculation by a year. Epiphanius was one of the saints of the Greek calendar, and is mentioned in the Menologium translated by Sirletus, but not in that of the emperor Basil. He was succeeded by Anthimus, bishop of Trapezus. Some Letters of Epiphanius to pope Hormisdas, and of the pope to him, are extant in Labb
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), or Justinianus Magnus or Justinian the Great (search)
and Theodosian Codes, the commission was armed with very ample powers. It was authorized to correct and retrench, as well as to consolidate and arrange. The commissioners executed their task speedily. In the following year, on the 7th of April, A. D. 529, the emperor confirmed the Novum Justinianeum * This is the adjective used by Justinian himself. The purer Latin form would be Justinianus Codex, like Theodosianus Codex. Codicem, giving it legal force from the 16th of April following, and abol2, p. 239-247; Hugo, Civilist. Mag. vol. v. p. 118-125.) Even after the publication of the fifty decisions, the imperfection and ambiguity of the existing law required to be remedied by further constitutions. The incompleteness of the Code of A. D. 529 was now apparent, and Justinian was not indisposed to the revision of a compilation, which, having been made at the commencement of his reign, contained but little of his own legislation. Accordingly, the task of revision was entrusted to Tribo
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Olympiodo'rus (search)
ror Justinian. He was a younger contemporary, and possibly a pupil, of Damnascius; the partiality which he uniformly shows for him, and the preference which he gives him even above Proclus, seem to indicate this. Our knowledge of Olympiodorus is derived from those works of his which have come down to us. From a passage in his scholia to the Alcibiades Prior of Plato, Creutzer has acutely inferred that he taught before the Athenian school was finally suppressed by Justinian, that is, before A. D. 529 ; though the confiscations to which the philosophers were being subjected are alluded to. And in various other passages the philosophy of Proclus and Damascius is spoken of as still in existence. Assessment From what we have of the productions of Olympiodorus he appears to have been an acute and clear thinker, and, if not strikingly original, far from being a mere copyist, though he follows Damasciuts pretty closely. He was a man of extensive reading, and a great deal of valuable matter
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Simpli'cius (search)
maltreatment the followers of the ancient faith found legal protection (Cod. Theod. 16. tit. 10), until, under the emperor Justinianus, they had to endure great persecutions. In the year 528 many were displaced from the posts which they held, robbed of their property, some put to death, and in case they did not within three months come over to the true faith, they were to be banished from the empire. In addition, it was forbidden any longer to teach philosophy and jurisprudence in Athens (A. D. 529; Malalas, xviii. p. 449. 51, ed. Bonn; comp. Theophanes, 1.276, ej. ed.). Probably also the property of the Platonic school, which in the time of Proclus was valued at more than 1000 gold pieces (Damasc. ap. Phot. p. 346, ed. Bekk.), was confiscated ; at least, Justinian deprived the physicians and teachers of the liberal arts of the provisionmoney (sith/seis), which had been assigned to them by previous emperors, and confiscated funds which the citizens had provided for spectacles and oth
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Theo'philus (search)
Theo'philus （*Qeo/filos), was one of the lawyers of Constantinople who were employed by Justinian on his first Code, on the Digest and on the composition of the Institutes (De Novo Codice faciendo, § 1. De. Justinianco Codice conformando, § 2. De Confirmatione Digestorum, Tanta, &c, § 9, Instit. D. Justiniani Prooemium, § 3). In A. D. 5218 Theophilus was comes sacri consistorii and juris doctor at Constantinople. In A. D. 529 he was ex magistro and juris doctor at Constantinople ; and in A. D. 532 he had the titles of Illustris, Magister and Juris peritus at Constantinople. Works This Theophilus is the author of the Greek translation or paraphrase of the Institutes of Justinian, a fact which is now universally admitted, though some of the older critics supposed that there were two Theophili, one the compiler of the Institutes, and the other the author of the Greek version. The Greek paraphrase was made perhaps shortly after the promulgation of the Institutes A. D. 533; and it wa<