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Dorotheus (flourished 6th century ad) was a jurist, one of the principal codifiers of Roman law under the emperor Justinian I. Dorotheus helped to compile the Digest, or Pandects (published in 533), and the second edition of the Codex Constitutionum (published in 534). With Tribonian (Tribonianus), head of the Digest’s compilers, and Theophilus, he also prepared the Institutes (533) as an introduction to the Digest. Fragments of his Index (542), a commentary on the Digest,...