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<p>[QUOTE="kevin McGonigal, post: 4513837, member: 72790"]Yes, indeed, and Justinian tried hard, very, very hard to preserve those Roman laws, those Roman values the Roman identity and I think more so than those emperors who came after him. Those who followed Justinian often had enough to worry about just surviving. Justinian I think, was the last of the emperors in Constantinople to try to extend and restore those values and laws and identity to places that had enjoyed the benefits of Romanitas until recently and in that sense he was "the last of the Romans". By the way, on the use of Latin. Even Justinian had to admit that pushing Latin in the eastern Empire was beating a dead horse. Although the Institutes and the Digest of his codification of the Roman Law were originally written in Latin, when he extended those codes with his Novellae, a synopsis of a simplified code for the use of the average citizen, despite the Latin title, they were issued in Greek.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="kevin McGonigal, post: 4513837, member: 72790"]Yes, indeed, and Justinian tried hard, very, very hard to preserve those Roman laws, those Roman values the Roman identity and I think more so than those emperors who came after him. Those who followed Justinian often had enough to worry about just surviving. Justinian I think, was the last of the emperors in Constantinople to try to extend and restore those values and laws and identity to places that had enjoyed the benefits of Romanitas until recently and in that sense he was "the last of the Romans". By the way, on the use of Latin. Even Justinian had to admit that pushing Latin in the eastern Empire was beating a dead horse. Although the Institutes and the Digest of his codification of the Roman Law were originally written in Latin, when he extended those codes with his Novellae, a synopsis of a simplified code for the use of the average citizen, despite the Latin title, they were issued in Greek.[/QUOTE]
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