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                    <TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><text xml:base="urn:cts:pdlrefwk:viaf88890045.003.perseus-eng1"><body xml:lang="eng" n="urn:cts:pdlrefwk:viaf88890045.003.perseus-eng1"><div type="textpart" subtype="alphabetic_letter" n="I"><div type="textpart" subtype="entry" xml:id="joannes-bio-131" n="joannes_131"><head><persName xml:lang="la"><surname full="yes">Joannes</surname></persName></head><p>3. An advocate in the courts of the praefecti praetoriorum at Constantinople, was one of the
      commission of sixteen, headed by Tribonian, who were employed by Justinian (<date when-custom="530">A. D. 530</date>-<date when-custom="533">533</date>) to compile the Digest. (Const. <hi rend="ital">Tunta,</hi> § 9, Const. <foreign xml:lang="grc">Δέδωκεν</foreign>,
      § 9.) He is a different person from the Joannes who was at the head of the commission
      appointed to compile the first <hi rend="ital">Constitutionum Codex.</hi></p><div><head>Works</head><div><head><title xml:lang="la">repetita praelectio codis</title></head><p>It appears from Const. <hi rend="ital">Cordi,</hi> § 2, that he was one of the
        commission of five, headed by Tribonian, who drew up the <title xml:lang="la">repetita
         praelectio codis,</title> which was published in <date when-custom="534">A. D. 534</date>. <pb n="604"/></p></div></div></div></div></body></text></TEI>
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