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  • partment we may be sure that the Gothic rule was often regretted.[1]
  1. The Pragmatic Sanction is found at the end of all editions of the Corpus Juris Civilis. In the affix Narses is named as the Praepositus of the Sacred Cubicle, that is Grand Chamberlain, or Chief Eunuch, the title under which he became military governor of Italy. He was provided with a Praetorian Praefect. There is a fragment of a later Act in which J. legalises a composition pro rata between debtors and creditors, having regard to the losses caused by the Frankish invasion.