Dorotheus was a professor of jurisprudence in the law school of Berytus in Syria, and one of the three commissioners appointed by the Roman emperor Justinian I to draw up a book of Institutes, after the model of the Institutes of Gaius, which should serve as an introduction to the Digest (or Pandects) already completed. His colleagues were Tribonian and Theophilus; and their work was accomplished in 533. He also helped compile the second edition of the Codex Constitutionum (published in 534). In 542, as a commentary on the Digest, he published what is called the Index. Fragments of this commentary, which was in the Greek language, have been preserved in the Scholia appended to the body of law compiled by order of the emperor Basilius the Macedonian and his son Leo the Wise, in the 9th century, known as the Basilica. From this, it seems probable that the commentary of Dorotheus contained the substance of a course of lectures on the Digest delivered by him in the law school of Berytus, although it is not cast in a form so precisely didactic as the Index of Theophilus. Jurisprudence is the scientific study of law through a philosophical lens. ... // A law school is an institution where future lawyers obtain legal degrees. ... Roman Emperor is the term historians use to refer to rulers of the Roman Empire, after the epoch conventionally named the Roman Republic. ... Justinian I depicted on one of the famous mosaics of the St. ... This article is about Gaius, the jurist. ... Pandects (Lat. ... Tribonian (c. ... Various people have been known by the name Theophilus. ... Justinian I depicted on a mosaic in the church of San Vitale, Ravenna, Italy The Corpus Juris Civilis (Body of Civil Law) is a fundamental work in jurisprudence, issued from 529 to 534 by order of Justinian I, Byzantine Emperor. ... Greek (Greek Ελληνικά, IPA – Hellenic) is an Indo-European language with a documented history of 3,500 years. ... Scholium (tr~bXtoe), the name given to a grammatical, critical and explanatory note, extracted from existing commentaries and inserted on the margin of the manuscript of an ancient author. ... Basil, his son Constantine, and his second wife, emperess Eudoxia Ingerina. ... The Byzantines considered themselves the true Romans. ... This earthenware dish was made in 9th century Iraq. ... The Basilica of St. ...

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