Theodore the referendarius
Justinian's official for petitions, whom the emperor put in charge of burying the dead during the plague.
The Plague at Constantinople
Procopius, History of the Wars, Book 2 (chapters 22–23) · c. 550 (events of 542; Books 1–7 made public in 551 at the earliest)
ὡς τὸ εἰκός, ἦλθε. στρατιώτας οὖν ἐκ παλατίου καὶ χρήματα νείμας Θεόδωρον ἐκέλευε τοῦ ἔργου τούτου ἐπιμελεῖσθαι, ὃς δὴ ἀποκρίσεσι ταῖς βασιλικαῖς ἐφειστήκει, ἀεὶ τῷ βασιλεῖ τὰς τῶν ἱκετῶν δεήσεις ἀγγέλλων, σημαίνων τε αὖθις ὅσα ἂν αὐτῷ βουλομένῳ εἴη. ῥεφερενδάριον τῇ Λατίνων φωνῇ τὴν τιμὴν ταύτην καλοῦσι Ῥωμαῖοι.
as was only natural. He assigned soldiers from the palace and money, and he ordered Theodore to take charge of the work. Theodore was in charge of the emperor's replies: he always brought the requests of petitioners to the emperor and then told them in turn what the emperor wished. The Romans call this office by a Latin name, referendarius.
Θεόδωρος δὲ τά τε βασιλέως διδοὺς χρήματα καὶ τὰ οἰκεῖα προσαναλίσκων τοὺς ἀπημελημένους τῶν νεκρῶν ἔθαπτεν.
Theodore, handing out the emperor's money and spending his own as well, buried the dead whom no one had cared for.