Pegasus (lawyer)

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Pegasus was a classical Roman jurist and senator under the emperors Vespasian and Domitian .

Pegasus, whose full name was probably Lucius Plotius Pegasus , was possibly the son of a Roman naval commander . Under Vespasian he exercised the office of suffect consul around 71 , then until 73 as prefect of Dalmatia and subsequently from 75 to 78 as governor of Germania superior or Hispania citerior . Vespasian entrusted Pegasus around 79 with the office of praefectus urbi , which he exercised again with a two-year break from 81 to around 85 under Domitian.

Pegasus succeeded Proculus in the Proculian law school . In addition, he was the driving force behind the Senatus consultum Pegasianum , an inheritance regulation that gave the heir the quart as a minimum entitlement beyond the testamentary / legal quart from an " inheritance fideikommiss ".

About the personal origin of the lawyer and his character can only be derived from the satires of Juvenal and the work of a scholiast who wrote 300 years later that are not without a doubt certain . Here, in addition to his simple descent, the legal scholar is described as highly competent in the field, but also as unworldly and naive. Pegasus is said to have been called "a book, not a person" during his lifetime, who was based on the alien assumption that armed force would never be necessary to enforce the law. His works have not survived, although they are often cited by later lawyers.

literature

  • Edward Champlin, Pegasus, in Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 32, 1978, pp. 269-278.
  • Richard A. Baumann, Lawyers and Politics in the Early Roman Empire , Munich 1989, pp. 146–164.
  • Detlef Liebs : Court lawyers from the Roman emperors to Justinian , Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Philosophical-Historical Class, Munich 2010, CH Beck, ISBN 978-3-7696-1654-5 , Pegasus .
  • Dieter Medicus : Pegasus. In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 4, Stuttgart 1972, Col. 582 f.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Scholion , Juvenal 4, 77 (online)
  2. ^ AE 1967, 355
  3. ↑ Pomp. , singularis enchirdii , D, 1, 2, 2 § 53
  4. ↑ Inheritance Fideikomiss (or universal Fideikomiss) is the informal instruction to the heir to pass on the entire inheritance to the beneficiary (Fideikommissar).
  5. ^ Ulrich Manthe : Das senatus consultum Pegasianum (= Freiburg legal-historical treatises. New series, volume 12). Duncker and Humblot, Berlin 1989 (habilitation thesis). P. 41.
  6. ↑ Juvenal , Sat. 1, 4, 75–81 (online)
personal data
SURNAME Pegasus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman jurist
DATE OF BIRTH 1st century
DATE OF DEATH 1st century