1. A celebrated Graeco-Roman jurist.
Of the noble family of the Maleini, he was honoured with the rank of Patricius, and filled various high offices at Constantinople. He was first a puisne judge (λιτὸς κριτής) under Romanus junior (Basil. vii. p. 677, schol.), and continued to fill the same office under Nicephorus Phocas (reigned A. D. 963-969), then was made Quaestor, and was afterwards made Magister Officiorum under Basileius Bulgaroctonus (reigned 975-1025). Basileius Porphyrogenitus, in a novell inserted in the collection of Leunclavius (J. G. R. ii. p. 173), speaks of the uninterrupted prosperity of his family for 100 or 120 years. (Zachariae, Hist. Jur. Gr. Rom. Delin. p. 58; Heimbach, de Basil. Orig. p.79.)
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