[336] Nov. lxxxii. A dozen of these pedanei judices are mentioned by name. In the capital they were mostly nobles, and of all ranks.
[337] Nov. lxxx. If they were proved to be idle or unemployed persons, work was to be found for them in the state factories, cripples and the aged excepted; Ibid., 6.
[338] Nov. xiii; cf. Procopius, Anecd., 20; Jn. Lydus, De Magistr., ii, 30. Twenty soldiers and thirty matricarii (firemen?) were allotted to him. As we have seen (p. 81), there was from the first a regional band of the kind; but perhaps this new body was general and supervisional.
[339] Nov. xiv.
[340] Jn. Malala, xviii, p. 40; "five pieces of money," not aurei, but apparently coins of small value.
[341] Procopius, Anecd., 17; De Aedif., 1, 9.
[342] Nov. lxxvii; cxli; Procopius, Anecd., 16, 20, etc. They were subjected to amputation of the offending member and exhibited publicly in their mutilated condition; Jn. Malala, p. 430. Isaiah of Rhodes and Alexander of Diospolis are mentioned as Bishops thus treated. "Il leur fit couper les reins, qu'il fit exposer à un poteau.... Un héraut criait," etc. Michael Melit. (Langlois), p. 193. J. was remonstrated with on the cruelty of the procedure, whereupon he replied, "If they had committed sacrilege, would you not have cut off their hands?" Zonaras, xiv, 7.
[343] Nov. cxlii.
[344] Ibid.
[345] Nov. xxviii, 4; xxix, 5; xxx, 6, 11.