Floridus

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Floridus (* 364 / 365 , † 427 ) was a late antique Roman jurist . He is known for his grave inscription, which is kept in front of the walls in the Benedictine monastery near Sankt Paul , which is a longer epigram . The dates of life of the Floridus can be determined by specifying the acting consuls and the age of his death. The epitaph is introduced with the commemorative words originally addressed to the general Marcus Claudius Marcellus , which Virgil the conqueror of Syracuse (212 BC) had dedicated.

His family came from the senatorial class . Successively he exercised the functions of lawyer ( causidicus ), city praetor ( praetor urbanus ) and legal assessor of the governor in Rome . His rhetoric is praised for being simple and easy to grasp. Later, in the role of governor , his path led back to an unknown province, to Liguria and finally to Rome, where he ultimately worked as a law teacher ( antecessor ).

literature

  • Detlef Liebs : Jurisprudence in late antique Italy (260-640 AD) (= Freiburg legal-historical treatises. New series, volume 8). Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1987, p. 66.
  • Franz Wieacker : Law and Society in Late Antiquity. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1964, p. 142, note 49.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ CIL 6, 31992 = Franz Bücheler : Carmina Latina epigraphica 686 = ILCV 87 = Inscriptiones Christianae urbis Romae 4886 ( photo of the inscription ).
  2. ↑ Virgil, Aeneid 6,878.
  3. ↑ Detlef Liebs : The jurisprudence in late antique Italy (260-640 AD) (= Freiburg legal-historical treatises. New series, volume 8). Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1987, p. 66.
  4. ^ Franz Wieacker : Law and society in late antiquity. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1964, p. 142, note 49.
personal data
SURNAME Floridus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman jurist
DATE OF BIRTH 364 or 365
DATE OF DEATH 5th century