Aelius Marcianus

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Aelius Marcianus was a Roman jurist who wrote after the death of Septimius Severus, [1] whom he calls Divus in his excerpts from the Pandects . [2] Other passages in the same source show that he was then writing under Antoninus Caracalla, [3] the son and successor of Severus. It also appears from his Institutiones that he survived Caracalla. [4] [5] It is therefore probable that he also wrote under Alexander Severus, whose reign commenced 222 AD. Caracalla died in 217. Another Aelius Marcianus is cited in the Pandects , who was proconsul of Hispania Baetica in the time of Antoninus Pius. [6]

The works of Marcianus, from which there are excerpts in the Pandects , are:

Marcianus also wrote notes on Papinian. Marcianus is cited by Ulpianus and Paulus. There are 275 excerpts from Marcianus in the Pandects .

There are rescripts addressed by Alexander Severus to "A. Marcianus" and to "A. Martianus", [8] which may be the same name, [9] and one by Gordian to "A. Martianus" in the year 239; [10] but this may be a different person from the jurist whose writings are excerpted in the Pandects.

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References

  1. ↑ Long, George (1867), "Marcianus, Aelius", in Smith, William (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology , vol. 2, Boston, p. 942, archived from the original on 2012-10-07, retrieved 2007-10-21{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  2. ↑ Pandects 50. tit. 4. s. 7
  3. ↑ Pandects 48. tit. 17. s. 1
  4. ↑ Pandects 35. tit. 1. s. 33
  5. ↑ Cod. 9. tit. 8. s. 8
  6. ↑ Pandects 1. tit. 6. s. 2, where Ulpian gives the rescript of Pius addressed to this Marcianus.
  7. ↑ compare Institutions 4. tit. 3. s. 1, and Pandects 32. s. 65. § 4; Inst. 2. tit. 18, "hoc colore," &c., and Dig. 5. tit. 2. s. 2
  8. ↑ Cod. 2. tit. 13. s. 6
  9. ↑ Cod. 7. tit. 21. s. 4
  10. ↑ Cod. 4. tit. 21. s. 4

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