The New International Encyclopædia/Justin I.

​JUSTIN I., the Elder (452–527). Byzantine Emperor from 518 to 527. His parents were Goths, but he entered as a private into the body. guard of the Emperor Anastasius I., and rose to the rank of Senator and commander of the Imperial guards. On the death of Anastasius, A.D. 518, the army proclaimed Justin Emperor. Feeling that he was unfitted to direct the internal civil administrations, he wisely resigned this duty at first to the quæstor Proclus, and later to his nephew, Justinian. His decrees against the Arians led to the break between the Catholics in Italy and Theodoric (q.v.). Some time before his death, August 1, 527, he adopted Justinian (q.v.). Consult Bury, Later Roman Empire (London, 1889).

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