Baphius
Baphius (Ancient Greek: Βάφιος) was a Greek commentator on the Byzantine code of laws called the Basilika.[1]
His date and history are uncertain, but he probably lived in the 10th or 11th century. Seventeenth-century hagiographer and historian Joseph-Marie Suarez wrote that Baphius was not strictly a proper name, but an appellative epithet given to an annotator on the Rubrics of the Basilika.[2] Other scholars reject this opinion.[3] Some scholars call him "Salomon Baphius", but this naming is obscure and possibly incorrect.[4]
Notes
[edit]- ↑ cited Basilica, vol. vii. p. 787, ed. Fabrot
- ↑ Joseph-Marie Suarez, Notitia Basilicorum, § 39
- ↑ Bach, Hist. Jur. Rom. 676, n. i.
- ↑ Tigerström, Aeuss. Röm. Rechtsgesch. p. 330
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Graves, John Thomas (1870). "Baphius". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. p. 459.