Ga'ridas
a Graeco-Roman jurist, said by Nic. Comnenus Papadopoli (who calls him Garidas Leo) to have been a judex veli. (
Praenot. Mystag. p. 15, 371, 400, 407.)
He wrote, concerning homicides and those who take refuge in sanctuaries, to
Constantinus Ducas (reigned A. D. 1059-1067), not
Michael Ducas, as stated by Bach and by Pohl (
ad Suares. Notit. Basil. p. 140. n.
ζ;
Basil. ed. Fabrot. vol. vii. p. 693.)
He also wrote a treatise concerning actions in alphabetical order, in which arrangement he was afterwards imitated by Psellus. (
Basil. vol. ii. p. 548, 556, 574, 651, 652, vol. iii. p. 78, 115, 249, 353, 389, 391, vol. vii. p. 651, 914; Assemani,
Bibl. Jur. Or. 2.20. p. 411; Heimbach,
De Basil. Orig. p. 73; Zachariae,
Hist. Jur. Gr. Rom. Delin. § 443.)
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