DOROTHEUS

dorotheus, a professor of jurisprudence in the law school of berytus in syria, and one of the three commissioners appointed by the emperor justinian to draw up a book of institutes, after the model of the _institutes_ of gaius, which should serve as an introduction to the _digest_ already completed. his colleagues were tribonian and theophilus; and their work was accomplished in 533. dorotheus was subsequently the author of a commentary on the _digest_, which is called the _index_, and was published by him in 542. fragments of this commentary, which was in the greek language, have been preserved in the _scholia_ appended to the body of law compiled by order of the emperor basilius the macedonian and his son leo the wise, in the 9th century, known as the _basilico_, from which it seems probable that the commentary of dorotheus contained the substance of a course of lectures on the _digest_ delivered by him in the law school of berytus, although it is not cast in a form so precisely didactic as the _index_ of theophilus.