Epitome Juliani
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Epitome Juliani is a 6th-century Latin summary of Justinian’s Novellae (new laws), created to provide a concise and accessible version of the emperor’s later legislation.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Epitome Juliani canonical | 1 |
| Latin Epitome Juliani | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6552398 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
Target entity: Epitome Juliani Context triple: [Novellae, compiledIn, Epitome Juliani]
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Historia Augusta
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Epitome of the Divine Institutes
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Herodian's History of the Roman Empire
Herodian's History of the Roman Empire is a 3rd-century Greek historical work that narrates the Roman Empire’s political and military events from the death of Marcus Aurelius to the accession of Gordian III.
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De Brevitate Vitae
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E.
Summus Poeninus
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- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Epitome Juliani Target entity description: Epitome Juliani is a 6th-century Latin summary of Justinian’s Novellae (new laws), created to provide a concise and accessible version of the emperor’s later legislation.
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A.
Historia Augusta
The Historia Augusta is a late Roman collection of imperial biographies, notable for its mix of historical fact and fictionalized material about emperors and usurpers.
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B.
Epitome of the Divine Institutes
Epitome of the Divine Institutes is a concise abridgment of Lactantius’s major Christian apologetic work, presenting its theological and philosophical arguments in a shorter, more accessible form.
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C.
Herodian's History of the Roman Empire
Herodian's History of the Roman Empire is a 3rd-century Greek historical work that narrates the Roman Empire’s political and military events from the death of Marcus Aurelius to the accession of Gordian III.
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D.
De Brevitate Vitae
De Brevitate Vitae is a philosophical essay by Seneca the Younger that reflects on the nature of time and argues that life is long enough if used wisely.
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E.
Summus Poeninus
Summus Poeninus is the Latin name for the Great St Bernard Pass, a historic Alpine route linking Switzerland and Italy that has served as a key transalpine crossing since antiquity.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Latin epitome
ⓘ
legal text ⓘ summary of laws ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Emperor Justinian I NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| author | Julianus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| authorOccupation | jurist ⓘ |
| basedOn | Justinian’s Novellae NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| circulation | Western Roman legal tradition ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Byzantine Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| date | 6th century ⓘ |
| describes | new laws (Novellae) of Emperor Justinian I NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
epitome
ⓘ
legal compendium ⓘ |
| hasPart | summaries of individual Novellae ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | Late Antiquity ⓘ |
| influenced | medieval Roman law collections ⓘ |
| language | Latin ⓘ |
| legalSystem | Justinianic law NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| manuscriptTradition | medieval Latin manuscripts ⓘ |
| purpose |
to make Justinian’s Novellae more accessible
ⓘ
to provide a concise version of Justinian’s later legislation ⓘ |
| relatedWork |
Codex Justinianus
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Corpus Iuris Civilis NERFINISHED ⓘ Digest of Justinian NERFINISHED ⓘ Institutes of Justinian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| scholarlyField |
Byzantine legal history
ⓘ
Roman law studies ⓘ |
| subject |
Justinianic legislation
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Roman law ⓘ |
| typeOfSummary | abridged and reorganized presentation of Novellae ⓘ |
| usedIn |
legal education in Late Antiquity
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practice of Roman-Byzantine law ⓘ |
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Subject: Epitome Juliani Description of subject: Epitome Juliani is a 6th-century Latin summary of Justinian’s Novellae (new laws), created to provide a concise and accessible version of the emperor’s later legislation.
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