Gaianus

Gaianus († 348) was a late antique Roman lawyer of the 4th century.

He was buried on August 2, 348 by his own father; a Christ monogram on the gravestone shows his religious affiliation. His funerary inscription praises him for his successes ( felicitas ) and the honor he has gained. On the occasion of a visit by Emperor Constantine the Great from July to September 326 in Rome , Gaianus made himself available to the ruler as legal advisor ( iuris consultor ). In the Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire it is assumed that the description of Gaianus as amicus (“friend”) of the princeeps is to be understood specifically as an activity as comes consistorianus (“ comes in the imperial council”).

The epitaph was in St. Peter's Square , but had to be removed when the colonnades there were built in the 15th century . Today the inscription is lost, but the text was copied by Aldus Manutius and Giovanni Bembo before it was removed , so that it has been preserved in this way.

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CIL 6, 33865 = Franz Bücheler : Carmina Latina epigraphica (I Leipzig 1895) 659 = ILCV 748 = ICUR 887.

literature

Detlef Liebs : Non-literary Roman lawyers of the imperial era. In: Klaus Luig , Detlef Liebs (Hrsg.): The profile of the lawyer in the European tradition. Symposium on the occasion of the 70th birthday of Franz Wieacker. Rolf Gremer, Ebelsbach 1980, ISBN 3-88212-018-5 , pp. 123-198, here pp. 181 f.
Detlef Liebs: Jurisprudence in late antique Italy (260-640 AD) (= Freiburg legal-historical treatises. New series, volume 8). Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1987, p. 55.

Individual evidence

^ Arnold Hugh Martin Jones , John Robert Martindale, John Morris : Gaianus 4. In: The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire (PLRE). Volume 1, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1971, ISBN 0-521-07233-6 , p. 378.
↑ Aldus Manutius in Cod. Vat. Lat. 5241 p. 232; Giovanni Bembo in Codex Latinus Monacensis (CLM) 10801 f. 47; for CLM 10801 see the entry in manuscripta mediaevalia ; for the transmission of the inscription cf. CIL , Vol VI, 4.2, p. 3478.

personal data
SURNAME	Gaianus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Gajanus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Roman jurist
DATE OF BIRTH	4th century
DATE OF DEATH	348

[1] Arnold Hugh Martin Jones , John Robert Martindale, John Morris : Gaianus 4. In: The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire (PLRE). Volume 1, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1971, ISBN 0-521-07233-6 , p. 378.

[2] Aldus Manutius in Cod. Vat. Lat. 5241 p. 232; Giovanni Bembo in Codex Latinus Monacensis (CLM) 10801 f. 47; for CLM 10801 see the entry in manuscripta mediaevalia ; for the transmission of the inscription cf. CIL , Vol VI, 4.2, p. 3478.