Codex Hermogenianus

A collection of imperial constitutions made by Hermogenesy a jurist of the fifth century. It was nothing more than a supplement to the Codex Gregorianus, {supray) containing the constitutions of Diocletian and Maximilian.

1 Mackeld. Civ. Law, 44, § 54.

Mr. Long contends that the proper names of these jurists are Oregorianus and Hermogenianus, instead of Gregorius and Hermogenes.

Long's Discourses, 80.

But Selden and other eminent writers make constant use of the latter names, without objection. According to Selden, Gregorius and Hermogenes were heathen civilians who lived in the time of the Constantines, and fearinff lest by the new constitutions of the christian princes, the heathen jurisprudence should be lost, they applied themselves to the compiling their codes, in which they united together the laws of the heathen emperors from Adrian down to Diocletian, in order as much as possible to preserve the ancient. But all that remains of these two codes are some fragments which Cujacius has placed at the end of the Theodosian code. Seld, Diss, ad Flet, c.

5, sec. 2, p. 78, note.