Saksagan
Constantine stood in an upper room
“It will be well planned, you can wager on that,” Dacius agreed. “But that’s a game two can play. Now we’d better get a...
The civil law of Rome
The law of nature is that which she has taught all animals; a law not peculiar to the human race, but shared by all...
Dacius swore a purple
“You look as if you were roughly treated,” he said. “Who unloosed your bonds? Maximian?”
Dacius swore a purple oath. “Don’t tell me you were...
Yield up Massilia
“Like Dacius?” He could imagine the story Maximian had told her and which she seemed to have believed.
“Or some others.” She had missed entirely...
Constantine to move swiftly
There was every reason for Constantine to move swiftly with all the troops he could safely take from duty along the Rhine, since Maximian’s...
A Liar and A Hypocrite
Knowing countless other such acts of Justinian, I cannot include them, since the end of this book draws near. In any case, what I...
Their innocent fellow citizens
But since there was a statute of limitations barring action after thirty years, except in mortgages and certain other matters, where the limit was...
Faustin restored to his former rank
So the Senate investigated the affair and by the will of the Emperor, punished Faustin with exile. But the Emperor, after getting from him...
Most difficult undertaking
After having concluded this work and collected it all in a single volume under Our illustrious name, raising Ourself above small and comparatively insignificant...
Corpus Iuris Civilis 6th Century
Laws
Corpus Iuris Civilis, 6th Century
Although Law as practiced in Rome had grown up as a type of case law, this was not the “Roman...
