Aulus Ofilius
Aulus Ofilius was a Roman knight and eminent jurist who lived in the 1st century BC. Lived.
The specific dates of birth and death are not known. It is said that his wife Clodia was 115 years old. Although he was a staunch supporter and confidante of Gaius Iulius Caesar , he was also in close, friendly relationship with Marcus Tullius Cicero .
He received his legal training from Servius Sulpicius Rufus , who had established the scientific method of legal dialectics ( dialecticam artem ) in Roman law . Aulus Ofilius later distinguished himself as a teacher of the lawyers Quintus Aelius Tubero , Marcus Antistius Labeo and Gaius Ateius Capito . He also wrote several jurisprudential treatises that were found in the late antique digests . His detailed commentary on the praetoric edict ( ius edicendi ) provided information on official law, the ius honorarium . This legal institution, which was abandoned in the Diocletian period, corrected individual questions of the ius civile .
The pre-classical jurist was one of the leading late republican legal scholars whose works laid the methodological foundations for Roman jurisprudence in the ensuing classical imperial era .
Remarks
- ^ Aulus Ofilius , in: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology , Volume III.
- ↑ Pliny Maior, Naturalis Historia, lib. vii, xlviii, 158: "[…] Clodia Ofili CXV […]"; [1] .
literature
- Hans Georg Gundel : A. Ofilius 4. In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 4, Stuttgart 1972, Col. 248.
- Max Kaser : Roman legal history : Verlag Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1976, 2nd revised edition, ISBN 3-525-18102-7 , p. 167.
- Wolfgang Kunkel , Martin Schermaier : Roman legal history. 13th edition, Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2001, ISBN 978-3-8252-2225-3 , p. 140.
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| SURNAME | Ofilius, Aulus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Roman jurist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1st century BC Chr. |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1st century BC BC or 1st century |