Order of the Black Eagle links: alternately a black eagle and a device featuring a center medallion with the motto of the Order ("Suum Cuique"—literally "To each his own," but idiomatically "To each according to his merits"), a series of FRs forming a cross pattern, a blue enameled ring around this, and crowns at each cross point. The star of the Order was a silver eight-pointed star, with straight or faceted rays depending on the jeweler's design. The center medallion displayed a black eagle (which gripped a wreath of laurels in its left claws and a scepter in its right) on a golden background, surrounded
Ulpian XV 686 c. Scholars today agree that Athenaeus's Ulpian is not the historical Ulpian, but possibly his father. The date of the real Ulpian's death in 223 AD has been wrongly used to estimate the date of completion of "The Deipnosophists". In the study of law, he is mostly remembered for the phrase ""Juris praecepta sunt haec: honeste vivere, alterum non laedere, suum cuique tribuere" (The basic principles of law are: to live honorably, not to harm any other person, to render each his own)". Ulpian Ulpian (; ; c. 170223) was a prominent Roman jurist of Tyrian ancestry. He