Praetextatus (lawyer)

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Praetextatus was a late antique , post-classical jurist around the turn of the 3rd to 4th century. It is believed that it came from Africa , as indicated by the name, which was very common there at the time.

Praetextatus is known for a pagan tombstone, a fragment of which is kept in the Thermenmuseum in Rome . Only the upper left part of the text has survived, as can be deduced from the originally symmetrical ornamentation of the stone. In the broken-off text it is not only immortalized that he bore the title Vir egregius and was “of noble descent”, but also that Praetextatus was active as a “legal scholar” ( Hic situs est / Praetexatus v (ir) e (gregius) / iuris peritus / nobilitate ). Géza Alföldy and André Chastagnol assume that the information received was followed by further dignity functions of the deceased, such as an administrative sexagenarian post and a fiscal or other official advocacy at the court of the proconsul .

The inscription can be roughly dated by the fact that the buried person is only mentioned by a single name (which only appeared from the middle of the 3rd century), but is described in a comparatively objective style (which became uncommon from the middle of the 4th century) ).

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  • CIL 6, 33867 (Photo of the inscription in: Detlef Liebs: Non-literary Roman jurists of the imperial era. In: Klaus Luig , Detlef Liebs (Ed.): The profile of the jurist 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 after p. 176).

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. 176–178.
  • Detlef Liebs : Jurisprudence in late antique Italy (260-640 AD) (= Freiburg legal-historical treatises. New series, volume 8). Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1987, p. 52 f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Detlef Liebs : The jurisprudence in late antique Italy (260-640 AD) (= Freiburg legal-historical treatises. New series, volume 8). Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1987, p. 52 f.
personal data
SURNAME Praetextatus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman jurist
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd century or 4th century
DATE OF DEATH 3rd century or 4th century