1. A Graeco-Roman jurist, who practised as an advocate at Emesa, and was contemporary with and survived Justinian.
He published in Greek an epitome of Justinian's Novella.
this work, long known to the learned to exist in manuscript in the royal libraries of
Vienna and Paris, was first given to the world by
It was probably the same Athanasius who wrote a book
G. E. Heimbach, De Basilicoraum Origine Fontibus Scholiis, &c.,
Leipz. 1825, p. 44.