plate perforated so as to indicate the first four letters of his name.[1] After his coronation he married Lupicina; and the populace, while accepting her as his consort, renamed her Euphemia.[2] On his accession Justin promoted his nephew to the rank of Patrician[3] and Nobilissimus;[4] and Justinian became so closely associated with his uncle that he was generally regarded as the predominant partner in ruling the state.[5] But the Emperor was jealous of his authority, and when the Senate petitioned that the younger man should be formally recognized as his colleague, he grasped his robe and answered, "Be on your guard against any young man having the right to wear this garment."[6] Owing to the suddenness of their elevation both princes were ignorant of the routine of government, a circumstance which rendered the position of Proclus, the Quaestor or private adviser of the crown, peculiarly influential during this reign.[7]*
- ↑ Procopius, Anecdot., 6. Nearly all the chronographers note his illiteracy. A certain Marinus painted in one of the public baths a sequence of pictures in which he portrayed the career of Justin from his youth upwards. For this he was taken to task by the Emperor, but he extricated himself by explaining that his intention was an ethical one, in order to teach the people that in the Byzantine Empire a man might raise himself by his talents from the dunghill to the first position in the state; Zachariah Mytil., viii, 1.
- ↑ Theodore Lect., ii, 37, etc. The name Lupicina was, of course, the popular sobriquet for a prostitute, being connected with lupa, lupanar, etc.
- ↑ Victor Ton., an. 523; Cyril Scythop., op. cit., 68.
- ↑ Marcellinus Com., an. 527. He also took over his uncle's post of Count of the Excubitors; Hormisdas, Epist., 37.
- ↑ Procopius, Anecdot., 6; De Bel. Vand., i, 9; Jn. Lydus, De Magistr., iii, 51, etc.
- ↑ Zonaras, xiv, 5.
- ↑ Procopius, Anecdot., 6. He was probably the ex officio president of the Consistorium. It was generally anticipated that Anastasius would have chosen a successor from one of his three nephews, Hypatius,
