How To Use Justinian In A Sentence
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Plato's Academy was created around 390 B.C. and had remained in existence until the Byzantine emperor Justinian, closed its doors in 529.
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Then storeship Justinian had sailed in, to be followed at the end of the month by Surprize, Neptune and none other than Scarborough, on a second venture to New South Wales.
Morgan’s Run
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Well, if that proposition is right, it means that if Justinian happens to make a mistake and defames some lawyer, then it has qualified privilege as long as it publishes its mistake in good faith, no matter how serious the defamation.
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While taking on offensive position to "reunite" with the west under Justinian in the 500's, for the most part the position of the Empire was defensive in nature, having little desire to increase its borders.
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The novel ends, seemingly on a high, with Theodora walking out with the emperor Justinian, her new husband, to greet the very crowds who had once cheered and gawped at her floor-shows.
Theodora: Actress, Empress, Whore by Stella Duffy
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Constantinople by the prudence, rather than clemency, of Justinian; and he commanded Dagisteus, with seven thousand Romans, and one thousand of the Zani, * to expel the Persians from the coast of the Euxine.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Originally there seems to have been no appreciable difference in the signification of these two words, but after the period of Justinian the title archimandrite was jealously reserved for the superiors of the older or of the more important monasteries.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
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In pagan antiquity wholesale enfranchisements are frequent, but they never include all the owner's slaves, end they are always by testamentary disposition -- that is when the owner cannot be impoverished by his own bounty, (Justinian, "Inst.",
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
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Attracting numerous barbarian auxiliaries through generous payments, Justinian managed to reconquer much of Italy and the coastal strip of southern Spain, bolstering his claim to be reviving the empire's glory.
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Outside his church of St Sophia an equestrian statue showed Justinian in military costume, pointing his hand eastwards.
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A short truce was obtained; but their mutual resentment again kindled; and the remembrance of their shame rendered the next encounter more desperate and bloody Forty thousand of the Barbarians perished in the decisive battle, which broke the power of the Gepidae, transferred the fears and wishes of Justinian, and first displayed the character of Alboin, the youthful prince of the Lombards, and the future conqueror of Italy.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Later he was accused of plotting against Justinian and stripped of his dignities.
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Controls on the police which were exercised by the DEA have disappeared," said Rene Justiniano, a former antidrug czar turned opposition leader.
Smuggling Scandal Shakes Bolivia
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Constantine the Great knew no Greek and Justinian's accent was bad.
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The Council _in Trullo_ (named from the {90} dome-shaped place of meeting), 691, called also _Quini-sextan_, summoned by Justinian II.
The Church and the Barbarians Being an Outline of the History of the Church from A.D. 461 to A.D. 1003
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Emperor Justinian had chosen this young woman as his bride.
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Justinian, was the same through which the Mahometans penetrated into the empire.] 91 The expression of Procopius is remarkable.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Justinian led an austere life, working hard for long hours and expecting the same of subordinates.
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The chagan, the peculiar title of their king, still affected to cultivate the friendship of the emperor; and Justinian entertained some thoughts of fixing them in Pannonia, to balance the prevailing power of the Lombards.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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The picture of forceful barbarian invasion in the fifth century may have been influenced by some Byzantine historians of the sixth century, overanxious to justify Justinian's wars of reconquest in the western empire.
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The greatest Byzantine emperor was probably Justinian the Great who ruled from ad 527 to 565.
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The laws which excuse, on any occasions, the ignorance of their subjects, confess their own imperfections: the civil jurisprudence, as it was abridged by Justinian, still continued a mysterious science, and a profitable trade, and the innate perplexity of the study was involved in tenfold darkness by the private industry of the practitioners.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Penniless, Theodora became a child comic actor and prostitute in Byzantium with a racy repertoire of sexy acts (at least according to the rather hostile historian of the period, Procopius) before marrying the future emperor, Justinian.
Stella Duffy rides Theodora to victory at Cheltenham
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His work On Justinian's Buildings, was composed at the emperor's behest, and is panegyrical in tone.
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So was the whole island of Sicily won over to the realm of Justinian before the end of 535, and Belisarius, Consul for the year, rode through the streets of Syracuse on the last day of his term of office, scattering his "donative" to the shouting soldiers and citizens.
Theodoric the Goth Barbarian Champion of Civilisation
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Only the fragments containing text that overlaps with known parts of the Justinian Code could be translated, and that text deals with appeals and the statute of limitations for an unknown matter.
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Justinian at Constantinople; an anti-Handelist was looked upon as an anti-courtier, and voting against the Court in Parliament was hardly a less remissible or more venial sin than speaking against Handel or going to the Lincoln's Inn Fields Opera.
A History of the Four Georges, Volume II (of 4)
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Emperor Justinian reconquered North Africa and part of Italy, making Ravenna the western capital, but his success was shortlived.
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Justinian enumerated the "just" causes of disherison in Novel cxv; they are substantially the same in the modern civil codes.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
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Heresy was a crime against the state. Roman law in the Code of Justinian made it a capital offense.
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In the decemviral code the extreme penalty is attached to the crime of witchcraft or conjuration: 'Let him be capitally punished who shall have bewitched the fruits of the earth, or by either kind of conjuration (_excantando neque incantando_) shall have conjured away his neighbour's corn into his own field,' &c., an enactment sneered at in Justinian's _Institutes_ in Seneca's words.
The Superstitions of Witchcraft