Lucius Iavolenus Priscus

Gaius Octavius ​​Tidius Tossianus Lucius Iavolenus Priscus was a Roman politician, senator, and lawyer of the 1st century AD.

Javolen was the head of the Sabinian school and teacher of Salvius Iulianus (Julian). The official career of the lawyer, who was at the turn from the early to the high classical period , is well documented in inscriptions. Almost as in contrast to his fame gained in Rome, the ascending order of the career does not mention any city Roman offices - not even the consulate - but only provincial offices.

Javolen began his career as a legate of the Legio IIII Flavia Felix in Dalmatia ; thereafter, in 83, he was legate of the Legio III Augusta in Numidia . After this command he was still iuridicus ( chairman of the court) in the province of Britain (84/86?) Before he took up his suffect consulate with Aulus Bucius Lappius Maximus in the last nundinium (September / December) of the year 86 . Then Javolen was initially governor in the province of Germania superior (89 / 90-91 / 92); it is proven there by military diplomas dated October 27, 1990. The governorships of the provinces Syria (approx. 98/99 – approx. 99/100) and Africa (probably around 101) followed.

Javolen sat in the council of Trajan and Hadrian . His writings, especially the 14 libri epistularum , are masterpieces of case analysis and problem-related, but not generalizing, understanding of legal ideas. Omnis definitio (any definition) seems dangerous to him in the area of ius civile (private law). 72 fragments of his work have been recorded in the Pandects . Eventually, Javolen gained importance in his capacity as a revision of older legal literature. His 15 libri ex Cassio , five libri ad Plautium and the ten libri ex posterioribus Labeonis are known .

See also

• List of Roman consuls
• List of governors of Africa
• List of governors of Upper Germany
• List of Roman governors in Syria

literature

• Herbert Hausmaninger , Walter Selb : Römisches Privatrecht , Böhlau, Vienna 1981 (9th edition 2001) (Böhlau-Studien-Bücher) ISBN 3-205-07171-9 , p. 44.
• Theo Mayer-Maly : Iavolenus (2) . In: Der kleine Pauly , Vol. 2, 1967, Col. 1328.
• Werner Eck : Senators from Vespasian to Hadrian. Prosopographical investigations including the annual and provincial fasts of the governors . Beck, Munich 1970, pp. 131ff, 140ff, 152ff., 158. ( Vestigia , Vol. 13).
• Bengt E. Thomasson : Fasti Africani. Senatorial and knightly officials in the Roman provinces of North Africa from Augustus to Diocletian (= Skrifter utgivna av svenska institutet i Rom / Acta instituti romani regni sueciae. Volume 4 °, LIII). Paul Åström, Stockholm 1996, ISBN 91-7042-153-6 , p. 49 f. and p. 137 f.
• Adolf Berger : Octavius ​​59. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume XVII, 2, Stuttgart 1937, Sp. 1820-1848.

swell

• CIL 3, 9960
• CIL 3, 2864
• CIL 8, 23165

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Herbert Hausmaninger , Walter Selb : Römisches Privatrecht , Böhlau, Vienna 1981 (9th edition 2001) (Böhlau-Studien-Bücher) ISBN 3-205-07171-9 , p. 45.
2. ↑ Military diplomas of the year 90 ( CIL 16, 36 , RMD 5, 333 ).
3. ↑ Paul Holder : Roman Military Diplomas V (= Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies Supplement 88), Institute of Classical Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, London 2006, pp. 726–727, no. 333, note. 5.
4. ↑ Peter Weiß : A new legate of Domitians of Germania superior in a military diploma: Sex. Lusianus proculus. In: Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik , Volume 147 (2004), pp. 229-234, here p. 234 ( online ).
5. ↑ Dig. 50.17.202