Solomon, I have surpassed thee.
Νενίκηκά σε Σολομῶν.
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Justinian I
Eastern Roman emperor (r. 527-565). He reconquered the lost western empire, codified Roman law as the Corpus Juris Civilis, and rebuilt the Hagia Sophia. The distant root of modern continental civil law.
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