Solomon, I have surpassed thee.

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Justinian I

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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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