[306] Theophanes, an. 6,025, but Malala puts it in 528 (p. 441).
[307] He was in a very exalted frame of mind at this time, e.g., "We have to thank God ... for having vouchsafed to us so many advantages and so great, beyond what He ever granted to our predecessors"; Nov. xxviii, 4; cf. Cod., I, xvii, 2, etc.
[308] See p. 132.
[309] He gives as his reason that the military Dukes and the civil governors were always quarrelling; Nov. xxiv, i; xxvi, praef. Thirteen Dukes are named in the Notitia, but under this change nine Rectors appear as officers of both sword and gown; Nov. viii; xxiv-xxviii; xxx; xxxi; xli; l; cf. Nov. xx.
[310] Nov. xxiv, 1; xxv, 1, etc.
[311] The new Proconsuls took their titles from Cappadocia, Armenia, and Palestine; Nov. xxx; xxxi; ciii. As Spectabiles, however, their precedence was only nominal, the Praetors, etc., being also of that grade.
[312] Cappadocia I, II; Nov. xxx. Palestine I, II; Nov. ciii. Libya I; II; Edict xiii, 19, 22, etc. Helenopontus to Pontus Polemoniacus, Nov. xxviii. (Here we get some geographical information as to the limits of the Empire on the N.E. J. remarks that Pityus and Sebastopolis are rather military outposts than towns proper.) Paphlagonia to Honorias; Nov. xxix. A peculiar enactment, apparently without precedent, was the creation of a "Praefect of the Islands" with civil and military command over five scattered provinces of both continents, viz., Scythia, Mysia, Caria, the Cyclades, and Cyprus; Nov. xli; l; see the remarks of Jn. Lydus on this appointment; op. cit., ii, 28. There seems also to have been a junction of Dardania and part of Macedonia; Nov. xi; cxxxi. For all we know the provinces may have been dealt with seriatim from first to last. Numberless Acts have been lost, as exemplified by the rescript of Anastasius discovered in the Cyrenaica, 1827, and that of Justin and Justinian in Pisidia, 1889, the former annotated by Zachariä (Sitz-Ber. d. Berlin. Akad., 1879, p. 134), and the latter by Diehl (École d'Ath., Bull. de Corr. Hel., 1893, p. 501.) It will be perceived that in these new arrangements there is something of a return to the regional dispositions of the early Empire; and, in fact, Justinian expresses himself in that sense more than once in these Acts (see p. 132).
[313] Paphlagonia; Nov. xxix. Arabia; Nov. cii. Palestine; Nov. ciii. Later Arabia was renamed Palestine III; Procopius, De Aedif., v, 8.
[314] 500 solidi (£280) was now the usual maximum; Nov. xxiv, 5, etc. But the proconsul of Palestine could decide as high as 10 lb. of gold (£400); Nov. ciii, 1.
[315] Nov. xxiv, 3; xxv, 4, etc.