Marinian

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Marinian was a late antique Roman jurist at the turn of the 4th to 5th century who came from Galatia in Asia Minor .

That he was a lawyer is only known from one of the seven letters addressed to him by the famous politician Quintus Aurelius Symmachus , according to which he was a law teacher ( antecessor ) in Rome . In the letter, Symmachus Marinian gave the friendly advice not to take the teaching post assigned to him too seriously.

According to the Codex Theodosianus he was vicar in the year 383 in Visigothic Spain, in Mérida . The office meant spectability , which is why Marinian was of senatorial rank . The Christian historian Sulpicius Severus describes how Marinian dealt with the sectarian Priscillianists very diligently but so impartially that he fell out of favor with the church father Ambrose and the case was taken away from him.

The last pagan historian Zosimos finally lets us know that Marinian had to redeem his son Maximilian from Alaric I for 30,000 gold pieces in 409 .

literature

  • Detlef Liebs : Jurisprudence in late antique Italy (260-640 AD) (= Freiburg legal-historical treatises. New series, volume 8). Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1987, p. 64.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Symmachus, Epistulae 3, 23-29.
  2. ↑ a b Detlef Liebs : The jurisprudence in late antique Italy (260-640 AD) (= Freiburg legal-historical treatises. New series, volume 8). Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1987, p. 64.
  3. ↑ Codex Theodosianus 6,4,15.
  4. ^ Sulpicius Severus , Chronica 2.48.
personal data
SURNAME Marinian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman jurist
DATE OF BIRTH 4th century
DATE OF DEATH 5th century