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... authorities . No abbreviations were to be used in copying it . No commentaries were to be written on it ( only transla- tions into Greek , and summaries of its contents ) , lest they should give rise to controversies : futility of the ...
... authorities . No abbreviations were to be used in copying it . No commentaries were to be written on it ( only transla- tions into Greek , and summaries of its contents ) , lest they should give rise to controversies : futility of the ...
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... authority for the events of his life and reign . His histories of the Persian War , the war with the Vandals , the Gothic War , etc. , are full of the praises of the emperor . But in another work , known by the name of " Historia Arcana ...
... authority for the events of his life and reign . His histories of the Persian War , the war with the Vandals , the Gothic War , etc. , are full of the praises of the emperor . But in another work , known by the name of " Historia Arcana ...
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... authority of the Senate ; 3. Mandata , directions addressed by the em- peror to the prefect of the city , or the prefect of the praetorium , or to his legates in the provinces , or to oth- er officers invested with jurisdiction ...
... authority of the Senate ; 3. Mandata , directions addressed by the em- peror to the prefect of the city , or the prefect of the praetorium , or to his legates in the provinces , or to oth- er officers invested with jurisdiction ...
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... authority of law , in December , 533. It is divided into fifty books , and each book is divided into a num- ber of titles ( tituli ) , each with its appropriate heading . Under these titles stand the extracts , each one pre- ceded by ...
... authority of law , in December , 533. It is divided into fifty books , and each book is divided into a num- ber of titles ( tituli ) , each with its appropriate heading . Under these titles stand the extracts , each one pre- ceded by ...
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... authority which they accorded to the other . But we have not yet considered all the component parts of the Corpus Juris . It was thought desirable that an introduction to the study of the law , an ele- mentary text - book for ...
... authority which they accorded to the other . But we have not yet considered all the component parts of the Corpus Juris . It was thought desirable that an introduction to the study of the law , an ele- mentary text - book for ...
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Page 49 - ... conqueror of Italy, humbler of Germany, terror of the North — saw him account all his matchless victories poor compared with the triumph you are now in a condition to win — saw him contemn the fickleness of Fortune, while, in despite of her, he could pronounce his memorable boast, " I shall go down to posterity with the Code in my hand!