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Social and political developments. Church affairs
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Page 12
So usual was the recourse to the Greek revised and abridged versions of this older code that even the compilers of the Prochiron resorted to them rather than to the Latin originals. The Prochiron refers to the Ecloga of Leo and Constantine as a subversion of the good laws which was useless for the empire, and states that it would be unwise to keep it in force. Yet in spite of this harsh judgment, the Ecloga of the Isaurian emperors was apparently so practical and popular that the Prochiron used much of its contents, especially in the titles following the twenty-first. According to the introduction to the Prochiron, all persons interested in a more detailed study of active law were supposed to use the larger code of sixty books, also compiled in Basil's time.
By the end of Basil's reign a new volume of laws was compiled and published under the title of the Epanagoge (ἐπαναγωγή, introduction). Several scholars have somewhat incorrectly considered this legislative work as merely a revised and enlarged Prochiron. According to its preface, the Epanagoge was an introduction to the forty volumes of purified older laws collected also in Basil's time; it, too, was divided into forty titles. Just what these two collections one in sixty books mentioned in the Prochiron, the other in forty books mentioned in the Epanagoge represented, is not certain. They were probably not finished for publication in Basil's time but formed the foundation of the Basilics published by his successor, Leo VI. Some scholars believe that the Epanagoge was never really published, and remained only in the form of a draft, while others hold that this work was an officially published law.
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