biography
pronunciation:
[gayus]
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| male
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| lived:
| (fl.130–180)
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| biography:
| Roman jurist, of whom little is known except as author of Institutiones (c.161, Institutes), four books of Roman law, followed by Emperor Valentinian III in the Law of Citations (426). They are the only substantial texts of classical Roman law that have survived. They were lost until the German historian Barthold Niebuhr discovered a manuscript at Verona in 1816. They were deciphered with great difficulty, as the writings of St Jerome had been superimposed on them. |
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