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Appion
a jurist, contemporary with Justinian, by whom he is named in terms of high commendation in the 82nd Novell, on account of the excellent discharge of his legal duties as the assessor of Marcellus. On his appointment, A. D. 539, as communis omnium, or major judex, with jurisdiction next to the emperor's praefects (a)/rxontes), he is said by Justinian to have acquired a high character, not only legal, but general.
He was previously ad vocates fisci, an office to which was attached the title spectabilis. His name appears as consul A. D. 539. [J.T.G]
Flavia'nus
9. an advocatus fisci in the time of Justinian, by whom he was nominated one of the general judges (koinoi\ pa/ntwn dikastai/), who were appointed in lieu of the special judges, formerly attached by a constitution of Zeno to patticular tribunals.
The names of the general judges so appointed by Justinian in A. D. 539 are Anatolus, Flavianus, Alexander, Stephanus, Menas, a second Alexander, Victor, and Theodorus, of Cyzicum.
At the same time the following persons were appointed superior judges, with high rank : Plato, Victor (different from the former Victor), Phocas, and Marcellus. To these the administration of justice at Constantinople was confided, in subordination to the emperor's ministers of state (a)/rxontes). Their powers, duties, and emoluments, are prescribed by the 82nd Novell. [J.T.G]
Mauri'cius
(*Mauri/kios), FLA'VIUS TIBE'RIUS, one of the greatest emperors of Constantinople (A. D. 582--(620), was descended from an ancient Roman family which settled in Asia Minor, perhaps some centuries previous to his birth, which took place about A. D. 539, in the town of Arabissus. in Cappadocia. We give the genealogy of his family so far as it is known:--
Maurice spent his youth at the court of the emperor Justin II.; and although he undoubtedly served also in the army, his name does not become conspicuous in history previous to 578.
At that period he was comes cubiculorum; and Tiberius had no sooner succeeded Justin (578) than he appointed Maurice magister militum, and gave him the command in Mesopotamia against the Persians, in place of the general Justinian, with whose military conduct the emperor was not satisfied. As Tiberius was considered to be the greatest captain of his time, he would not have entrusted so important a command to an inexperienced courtier, and co
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Seve'rus or Seve'rus Bar (search)