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Antigrapheus
(ἀντιγραφεύς), in the Kletorologion of Philotheos a subordinate of the quaestor. According to Bury (Adm. System 75f), antigrapheis were successors of the late Roman magistri scriniorum under the ...
apology
In the literary sense, a justification or defence of the writer's opinions or conduct, not usually implying (as in the everyday sense) any admission of blame. The major classical precedent is the ...
Blinding
(τύφλωσις) as a punishment did not exist in the law of Justinian I; the evidence concerning the blinding of Christian martyrs during the persecution is probably legendary. The first certain ...
booty
‘It is a law established for all time among all men that when a city is taken in war, the persons and the property of its inhabitants belong to the captors’ (Xenophon, Cyropaedia). ‘Booty’ referred ...
civil law
1 The law of any particular state, now usually called municipal law.2 Roman law.3 A legal system based on Roman law, as distinct from the English system of common law.4 Private law, as opposed to ...
Constantine the Philosopher
(monastic name Cyril), missionary to the Slavs and saint; born Thessalonike 826/7, died Rome 14 Feb. 869; feastday 14 Feb. Constantine and his brother Methodios were the sons of the ...
Ecloga Reference library
The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium
(᾽Εκλογή τω̑ν νόμων, lit. “selection of the laws”), a law book issued in Mar. 741 (rather than 726) by Leo
ecloga Reference library
Stephen J. Harrison
The Oxford Classical Dictionary (4 ed.)
‘selection’, used for a choice extract from a work (Varro, cited by Charisius, gram. 120. 28 Keil; Cic. Att....
Ecloga Aucta
An adaptation of the Ecloga. Designated in one MS as the “second Eklogadion,” it probably antedates the Macedonian period. As far as can be determined from the indirect (Ecloga privata ...
Ecloga Privata Aucta
A compilation of the Ecloga and Ecloga aucta. It is itself poorly transmitted, but nonetheless provides crucial evidence for the text of the Ecloga aucta. The prooimion, preserved in only one MS, ...
Epanagoge Aucta
A law book that consists of 54 titles and an appendix; it is based on the Epanagoge and, from Title 17 onward, the Prochiron. The Basilika were also used as ...
execution
1 The process of carrying out a sentence of death imposed by a court. See also capital punishment.2 The completion of the formalities necessary for a written document to become legally valid. In the ...
Farmer's Law
Regulatory text from Byzantium found in numerous MSS after the 10th century, dated by scholars variously from the 7th to the 9th centuries. It consists of eighty-five regulations mostly related ...
Law In Slavic Countries, Byzantine
Byz. law was introduced into Slavic lands along with Orthodox dogma and liturgy in the wake of Byz. missionary work in the area. In Great Moravia part of the Synagoge ...
Law In the East, Byzantine
A part of early Byz. canon law survived among the Eastern churches after their separation from the church of Constantinople in the 5th C. But with the exception of Georgia ...
Law, Vulgar
An expression coined by the legal historian E. Levy to characterize the law of the late Roman Empire in the West. The expression refers not only to the formal elements ...
Leo III
(c. 680–741)Byzantine emperor (717–41). He repulsed several Muslim invasions and carried out an extensive series of financial, legal, administrative, and military reforms. In 726 he forbade the use ...
Mosaic Law
More fully titled “Excerpts from the Law Given by God through Moses to the Israelites,” a collection of passages from Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy that is preserved in dozens ...
mutilation
The infliction of serious bodily injury so as to disfigure or disable. It is a war crime so classified by Article 8 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.
Nomos Stratiotikos
(Νόμος στρατιωτικός; Lat. Leges militares, “Soldier's Law”), a collection of approximately 55 regulations, mainly penal and disciplinary, for soldiers.Manuscript TraditionThe extensive MS tradition ...
