NOUN
- Byzantine emperor who held the eastern frontier of his empire against the Persians; codified Roman law in 529; his general Belisarius regained North Africa and Spain (483-565)
How To Use Justinian In A Sentence
- Plato's Academy was created around 390 B.C. and had remained in existence until the Byzantine emperor Justinian, closed its doors in 529.
- Justinian led an austere life, working hard for long hours and expecting the same of subordinates.
- 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
- Heresy was a crime against the state. Roman law in the Code of Justinian made it a capital offense.
- 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
- Emperor Justinian reconquered North Africa and part of Italy, making Ravenna the western capital, but his success was shortlived.
- 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)
- 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.
- 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
- His work On Justinian's Buildings, was composed at the emperor's behest, and is panegyrical in tone.
