Gaius, or Caius : xxxx-xxxx

Gaius, or Caius (xxxx-xxxx)
Roman jurist, flourished in the 2d century of the Christian era.  He is the author of numerous legal works, of which the Institutes is the most important.  This is supposed to have been the first instance of a popular manual of Roman law in the sense of modern elementary textbooks.  It was incorporated almost bodily into the celebrated Institutes of Justinian.  The work was long lost, but a large part of it was recovered in 1816-17 from a much defaced palimpsest found by Niebuhr in the Cathedral Library at Verona.

~ The Lincoln Library of Essential Information, Volume 2, Thirty-Fifth Edition, 1972, Biography, Page 1817.