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  • adjective Of or pertaining to the Institutes or laws of the Roman Justinian.

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  • adjective Of or pertaining to Justinian I, Emperor of the Byzantine or East Roman Empire from 527 to 565.

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  • noun Byzantine emperor who held the eastern frontier of his empire against the Persians; codified Roman law in 529; his general Belisarius regained North Africa and Spain (483-565)

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