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650 JULIANUS. JULIANUS.
the Letter to the Senate and the People of Athens, phrase "The luminary of the law," may be inferred
in A. D. 360; the Letter to Themistius, and the from the epigram* of his contemporary Theaetetus
Oration on Helius, in 361; the Kaieapes, in the Scholasticus preserved in the Anthologia Graeca
winter of 361-362, or perhaps in the following (vol. iii. p. 21 6, ed. Jacobs), among other epigrams
year; most of his extant Letters during the same addressed to the statues of eminent men:period; one of his Orations on false Cynicism, and Toi;Tov'IovAtavdv, iotutuv pdes, etov 11ool
that on the Mother of Gods, as well as a Letter on'Peiy SCL BEpd, "I livra q ss &',aPaer'r
the restoration of ancient Hellenism, of which a fragment is extant, in 362; the Misopogon in the be- Hunc videntes Julianum, splendidum juris decus,
ginning of 363; and the Kard XpLOT7avzw,, finished Roma Berytusque, Nil non, inquiunt, natura quit.
during his expedition against the Persians, in the To this same Julianus is attributed the authorship
summer of 363. of three epigrams in the same collection (vol. iii.
(The works of Julian; Amm. Marc. v. 8 —xxv. p. 230) headed'IovAlavov'AvTwrtco'rvopos. Alciatus
5; most of the Orations and Epistles of Libanius, (Parelg. ii. 46) calls Julianus patricius and exespecially, Oratio Parentalis; Ad Antiochenos de consul, but without sufficient authority; and HuImseperactoris Ira; De ANece Juliani ulciscenda; ber Goltzius, in his preface to the edition of the
Socrates, H. E. lib. iii.; Zonar. lib. xiii.; Zo- Epitome of the Novells, which was published at
sim. lib. iii.; Eutrop. x. 14, &c.; Themist. Orat. Bruges in 1565, thinks it likely that the author of
iv.; Gregor. Nazianz. Orat. iii. iv. x. xxi.; So- the Epitome was identical with the consul Juliazomen. lib. v. vi.; Mamertinus in Panegyric. aet. nus, to whom Priscian dedicates his grammar.
(Mamertinus was Comes Largitionum to Julian, That the author of the Epitome was a professor
whom he accompanied in Gaul, and on his me- is shown by various forms of expression occurring
mnorable expedition down the Danube); Aurel. in that work which are known to have been usual
Vict. Constantius in fin.; Moses Chorenensis, amoniig the professors of the Lower.Empire; as, for
lib. iii.; Theophanes, pp. 29-44, ed. Paris; example, the word didicimus, at the beginningof
Fabric. Bibl. (areca, vol. vi. p. 719, &c. For the 67th constitution of the Epitome. It is also
other sources, especially ecclesiastical writers, and clear, from internal evidence, that the author was a
with regard to Julian's apostacy, we refer the resident in Constantinople, which in c. 216 and
reader to Fabricius, the notes to the splendid life 358 he'calls haec civitas, although in neither case
of Julian by Gibbon, in his Decline and Fall, and does the Novell of Justinian which he is abstractthe Abbe de la Bldterie's Vie de Julien, of which ing contain a parallel expression.
there is an English translation; Neander, Ueber The collection of Novells translated and abridged
(den Kaiser Julian, Leipz. 1812; Wiggers, Dissert. by Julianus is referred by Fr6herus, in his Chronode Juliano Apostata, Rostock, 1810, of which there logia prefixed to the Jus Graeco-Romanum, to the.
is a new edition in German in Illgen's ZeitsclriD year A. D. 570, and this date has been followed by
filr Hist. Titeol. 1837, vol. vii.; Schulze, De Jo- the majority of legal historians; but there is every
liani Pshilosophic et Mforibus, 1839; Teuffel, le reason to believe that the Epitome was completed
Juliano religionis Christiani contemptore, Tiibingen. during the life of Justinian, in A. D. 556. In it
1844.) [W. P.] Justinian is uniformly called noster imperator, while
preceding emperors, as Leo and Justinus, are called
Divus Leo and Divus Justinus. In the abstracts
~ Hi of Novells 117 and 134 there is no allusion to the
-- 9 A d subsequent legislation of Justinian, which again
R s, / i e~/permitted divorliumn bona gratia. In the original colArcsonvt, lection, also, no Novell of later date than the year
A. D. 556 is abstracted.
COIN OF FLAVIUS CLAUDIUS JULIANUS. The original collection consists of 124, or at
JULIA'NUS, the Graeco-Roman JURIST. A most 125, constitutions. These again are divided
Latin Epitome of the Novells of Justinian is extant into chapters, which, in the editions subsequent to
under this name. In one MS. the work is attributed A. D 1561, are doubly numbered, one numbering
to Joannes, a citizen of Constantinople; in some, running through the work from the commencement,
no author is named; but in several the translation and another beginning anew with each constitution.
and abridgment are ascribed to Julianus, a professor Thel2aconstitutions make 564 chapters. This
(antecessor) at Constantinople. It is remarkable will explain the different modes of citation. Thus
that no jurist of the name is recorded among the const. 1 consists of four chapters, and const. 2 of
compilers employed by Justinian, and no professor five chapters. The fourth chapter of const. 2 might
of the name occurs in the inscription of the Const. be c. 9, or as cost 2, c 4 Again, the
8nem addressed by Justinian i A. D. 533 to ti th constitution, the whole of which makes one
pmnem addressed by Justinianinl A. D. 533 to the
professors of law ~at Constantinople and Berytus. chapter (the 48th), may be cited as const. 8, or as
Among the extracts from contemporaries of Jus- c. 44. All that follows the 125th constitution in
tinian, which were originally appended to the text
of the Basilica, there is not one that bears the name u In this epigram, by'Pjc we are probably to
of Julianus. In Basil. 16. tit. 1. s. 6. ~ 2 (vol. iiwas New Rome.
p. 180, ed. Heimbach), a Julianus is named as Perhaps IouAlaeou is to be pronounced as a triputting a question to Stephanus, one of the eminent syllable, Youlynon. In the epigram prefixed to
jurists of Justinian's time, and hence it has been the Digest in the Florentine manuscript, we find
supposed that the author of the Epitome of the the name Tpscevscv' admitted into an hexameter
Novells was a disciple of Stephanus. That a Julianus, however, attained such legal celebrity in the B;ekov'Iovarivrav's vat reXpvlSaaTo Tr4ve
reign of Justinian as to be complimented with the "'Hp pa Tpsofvsavohs IyeA'c q Kaic e ealCaoisAs.