This third consulship, most renowned for us, God gave us, when under it both peace with the Persians was confirmed, and so great a volume of laws was laid up as was never devised even by our forefathers, and besides this a third part of the world (we mean all Libya) was joined to our sceptre—all these gifts granted by the most high God and our Saviour Jesus Christ in our third consulship. (§24) Let all therefore the most praiseworthy Magistrates of our commonwealth, receiving this our divine constitution, each provide in his own court that they use our aforesaid laws. And the most glorious prefect shall display it in this greatest and royal city.
And it shall be the care of our most excellent and most praiseworthy Master, and of the most glorious and most blessed prefects of our sacred praetoria—both of those in the regions toward the rising sun, and of those in Illyricum, and likewise also of those in Libya—through their own edicts to make these things plain to those who are ordered under them, for the inexcusable knowledge of all our subjects. Given on the seventeenth of the Kalends of January, our lord Justinian, perpetual Augustus, being consul for the third time, in the year 533.