[346] Nov. viii, 8, 10; xxviii, 5.
[347] Nov. viii, 10.
[348] Nov., xxv, 11; cf. Cod., I, xvii, 2, etc.
[349] Nov. viii, 10.
[350] Ibid., 11.
[351] Ibid.
[352] Nov. viii, praef. This is his first great Reform Act, to which the rest are expletory. He opens by celebrating his public spirit and philanthropy. "Day and night alike we devote to lucubrations and cogitations respecting whatever may be of utility to our subjects, so that they may be able to live peacefully and free from all anxiety," etc. But he soon begins to let the cat out of the bag—"We find that many causes of injustice have crept in whereby our subjects are reduced to indigence, so that they cannot pay the proper tributes.... Protected from the oppression of the governors, they will thrive, and hence the state and treasury will overflow, having rich taxpayers at its disposal," etc.
[353] Procopius, Anecd., passim; Jn. Lydus, De Magistr., iii, 57-70; Zonaras, xiv, 6.
[354] See pp. 198, 444 et seq.
[355] Nov., xxxi. Even the tract known as Armenia Minor, on the proximate bank of the river, which had long been an integral part of the Empire, was ruled by "Satraps" in an almost kingly fashion, and a semi-regal costume was permitted to them. Four were abolished by Zeno on account of disaffection (Procopius, De Aedif., iii, 1), and the very name was now rejected by Justinian as being "un-Roman."