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| | Beritus (Berytus) Nutris Legum (Beirut Mother of Law), Roman School of Law |
 | | External misfortune, and not internal decay, at last destroyed the school, the town of Berytus being completely demolished by an earthquake in the year A.D. The school was then transferred to Sidon, but appears to have languished on its transplantation to a new soil and never to have recovered its pristine vigour or vitality. |
 | | The school, which probably was founded by Septimius Severus, lasted until the destruction of Berytus itself by a sequence of earthquakes, tidal wave, and fire in the mid-6th century. |
 | | 212), Phoenician Roman jurist who posthumously became the definitive authority on Roman law, possibly because his moral highmindedness was congenial to the worldview of the Christian rulers of the postclassical empire. |
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