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  • Quintus Mucius Scaevola

    …wrote a small handbook called Horoi (“Definitions”), consisting of short rules of law and explanations of legal terms; it was to be the oldest work excerpted in the Byzantine emperor Justinian I’s Digest. He was killed in the massacres directed by Lucius Cornelius Sulla in his struggle against Gaius Marius…

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    …wrote a small handbook called Horoi (“Definitions”), consisting of short rules of law and explanations of legal terms; it was to be the oldest work excerpted in the Byzantine emperor Justinian I’s Digest. He was killed in the massacres directed by Lucius Cornelius Sulla in his struggle against Gaius Marius…

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