Gaius Caelius Saturninus

Gaius Caelius Saturninus ( signo Dogmatius ) was a Roman politician and post-classical jurist of the Diocletian - Constantinian period, who lived around the turn of the 3rd to 4th century. His legal training has not been proven beyond doubt, but it is probable due to the offices he holds and his nickname (which means something like "the doctrinal believer").

Saturninus is known for two inscriptions found at the foot of the Quirinal , which belong to statues of honor and were erected by his son. One of them has numerous civil legal offices held by him. His professional start is listed in the Fiscal Advocature ( fisci advocatus per Italiam ) at the imperial residence in Milan , probably at the court of Emperor Maximian . This activity in the financial administration was followed by a research assistant ( sexagenarius studiorum adiutor ) in the law firm a studiis . Later he became head ( magister studiorum) of the same and also held an office in the imperial consilium principis . He then rose to the position of ordinary consultant in legal matters ( ducenarius a consiliis sacris ), an office that allowed him to advance to head of the imperial dragonfly chancellery during the first or second tetrarchy , before turning to the field of vicarius a consiliis sacris . He left the field of responsibility to return to financial management. It remains to be seen whether, as governor ( vicarius ), he was already in charge of the supervisory functions of all imperial chancelleries ( scrinia ), representing the praetorian prefect , in order to represent the magister officiorum .

The Roman grain prefecture followed around 322 . In the Senate he rose to the rank of consular and after 326 to the senatorial vicarius praefecturae urbis , finally he became comes sacrarum largitionum , who was responsible for the finances throughout the empire, and in 334/335 the high point of his career was the Praetorian prefecture in Gaul decreed under Constantine II .

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CIL 6, 1704 ( several illustrations of the inscription in the Epigraphic Database Roma)
CIL 6, 1705 ( illustration of the inscription in the Epigraphic Database Roma)

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. 178-181.
Detlef Liebs: Jurisprudence in late antique Italy (260-640 AD) . In: Freiburger Rechtsgeschichtliche Abhandlungen, New Series , Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1987, pp. 53–55.
Detlef Liebs: Court lawyers from the Roman emperors to Justinian (= session reports of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Philosophical-Historical Class. Year 2010, Issue 2). Publishing house of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-7696-1654-5 , pp. 86–89 and 92–95.

Individual evidence

↑ Detlef Liebs : Non-literary Roman jurists 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. 180 f.
↑ Detlef Liebs: Court lawyers from the Roman emperors to Justinian (= session reports of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Philosophical-Historical Class. Year 2010, Issue 2). Publishing house of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-7696-1654-5 , p. 88.
↑ Henriette d'Pavis Escurac: La Préfecture de l'annone. Ecole Française, Rome 1976, p. 373 (dating based on André Chastagnol ).
^ André Chastagnol: La préfecture urbaine à Rome sous le Bas-Empire (= Publications de la Faculté des Lettres d'Alger. Volume 34). Presses Universitaires de France, Paris 1960, pp. 32–35 and 73.
^ Jean-Rémy Palanque : Les préfets du prétoire de Constantin. In: Annuaire de l'Institut de Philologie et d'Histoire orientales et slaves. Volume 10, 1960, p. 490.

personal data
SURNAME	Caelius Saturninus, Gaius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Dogmatius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Roman jurist
DATE OF BIRTH	3rd century or 4th century
DATE OF DEATH	4th century

[1] Detlef Liebs : Non-literary Roman jurists 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. 180 f.

[2] Detlef Liebs: Court lawyers from the Roman emperors to Justinian (= session reports of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Philosophical-Historical Class. Year 2010, Issue 2). Publishing house of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-7696-1654-5 , p. 88.

[3] Henriette d'Pavis Escurac: La Préfecture de l'annone. Ecole Française, Rome 1976, p. 373 (dating based on André Chastagnol ).

[4] André Chastagnol: La préfecture urbaine à Rome sous le Bas-Empire (= Publications de la Faculté des Lettres d'Alger. Volume 34). Presses Universitaires de France, Paris 1960, pp. 32–35 and 73.

[5] Jean-Rémy Palanque : Les préfets du prétoire de Constantin. In: Annuaire de l'Institut de Philologie et d'Histoire orientales et slaves. Volume 10, 1960, p. 490.