A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology

Smith, William

A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. William Smith, LLD, ed. 1890

jurists.

1. COMES SACRARH, under Theodosius the younger, was one of the nine commissioners appointed by that emperor in A. D. 429 to compile codes of law upon a plan which was subsequently abandoned. He was not, however, afterwards employed in compiling the Theodosian code, of which a great part is still extant. [DIODORUS, Vol. I. p. 1018.]