theodosian code

Theodosian Code (thee-[schwa]-doh-sh[schwa]n).Roman law. A compilation of imperial enactments prepared at the direction of the emperor Theodosius II and published in A.D. 438. • The Theodosian Code replaced all other imperial legislation from the time of Constantine I (A.D. 306–337), and remained the basis of Roman law until it was superseded by the first Justinian Code in A.D. 529.

— Also termed (in Latin) Codex Theodosianus (koh-deks thee-[ schwa]-doh-shee-ay-n[schwa]s).

“As a literary work the Theodosian Code has a dismal reputation …. Some quaestors possessed an elegant, powerful, or agreeably ornate style…. Against these may be set others with literary pretensions whose prose is ponderous or marred by excessive alliteration, assonance, pleonasm, or fondness for technical terms, or whose compositions are in other ways inept.” Tony Honoré, Law in the Crisis of the Empire 379–455 AD 21 (1998).

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