Justus

(Ἰοῦστος) a Jewish historian of Tiberias in Galilaea, was a contemporary of the Jewish historian Josephus, who was very hostile to him. Works Chronicle of the Jewish Kings

Justus wrote, according to Photius (Bibl. cod. 33), a chronicle of the Jewish kings, from the time of Moses down to the death of Herod, in the third year of the reign of Trajan. The style of the work, which is lost, is said by Photius to have been concise, and the author omitted many of the most important events, such as the history of Christ, which it was a common practice with Jewish writers to pass over unnoticed.

Justus is further charged with having falsified the history of the wars with Rome, which led to the destruction of Jerusalem. (Comp. Joseph. Vit. §§ 37, 65, 74, who gives a long account of him, and censures him very severely.) He edited his work after the death of Agrippa and the other great men of the time, because, as Josephus says, he knew that his accounts were false, and had reason to fear the consequences. Some writers (Euseb. Hist. Eccl. 3.9; Steph. Byz. s. v. Τιβερίας) speak of a work of his on the Jewish war, but this may refer only to the last portion of his chronicle, which Diogenes Laertius (2.41) calls a Ζτίμμα Other Works

Suidas (s. v. Ἰοῦστος) mentions some other works of Justus, of which however not a trace has come down to us. [L.S]

[Catonius.]

a friend of Tacitus, who addresses him in the beginning of his, treatise De Oratoribus. He was also connected by friendship with the younger Pliny, who mentions him in his letters (Epist. 1.11, 7.2), and we have every reason for believing that he was a distinguished rhetorician of the time. [L.S]

a Roman jurist, who lived in the time of the Antonines, and collected imperial constitutions. Of his Constititionum Libri XX. there are 16 fragments in the Digest, not extending beyond the 8th book. The constitutions cited are all rescripts of the Antonines,either Marcus alone (Dig. 2. tit. 14. s. 60) or Marcus and Verus jointly. Of the collector nothing more is known, but his date is inferred from the circumstance that the Antonines are named in the extracts taken from his work without the epithet Divus. (Aug. C. Stockmann [Car. Aug. Hennike], Papirii Justi, Icti Romani, fragmenta observatiunculis illustrata, 4to, Lips. 1792; Petr. Elisa Piepers, de Papirio Justo, Icto, 4to. Lug. Bat. 1824.) [J.T.G]