Sextus Aelius Paetus Catus

Sextus Aelius Paetus Catus was a Roman republican politician and lawyer at the turn of the 3rd to the 2nd century BC. Chr.

He belonged to the gens Aelia and was probably a son of 216 BC. Pontifex Quintus Aelius Paetus who fell in the battle of Cannae and a younger brother of Publius Aelius Paetus ( consul 201 BC). 200 BC Sextus was a curular aedile , 198 BC. Consul (together with Titus Quinctius Flamininus ), 194 BC Chr. Censor . He was considered an educated person, famous lawyer and writer.

It is very likely that he was the author of the Tripertita (also called Ius Aelianum ), a three-part basic book on law. In Pomponius' genealogy he appears as the first lawyer who passed on his legal knowledge not only orally but also in writing. The three-part structure is initially preceded by the Twelve Tables Laws. This is followed by their interpretation by the priesthood and first interpretations by secular jurists. Most of the quotes given go back to this section. In the third section, the legal formulas follow .

literature

Jan Dirk Harke : Roman law. From the classical period to the modern codifications . Beck, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-406-57405-4 ( floor plans of the law ), § 1 no. 9 (p. 9).
Detlef Liebs : Sex. Aelius Paetus Catus. In: Werner Suerbaum (Ed.): The archaic literature. From the beginnings to Sulla's death (= Handbook of Ancient Latin Literature , Volume 1). CH Beck, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-406-48134-5 , p. 78 f.
Elimar Klebs : Aelius (105) . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 1, Stuttgart 1893, Col. 527 (outdated).

Remarks

↑ ^a ^b Jan Dirk Harke : Roman law. From the classical period to the modern codifications . Beck, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-406-57405-4 ( floor plans of the law ), § 1 no. 9 (p. 9).
↑ Dig. 1,2,2,38.
^ Marie Theres Fögen : Roman legal histories. About the origin and evolution of a social system. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2002 (Italian: Bologna 2006), ISBN 3-525-36269-2 , 175 ff.

personal data
SURNAME	Aelius Paetus Catus, Sextus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Paetus Catus, Sextus Aelius; Catus, Sextus Aelius Paetus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Roman politician, consul 198 BC Chr.
DATE OF BIRTH	3rd century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	2nd century BC Chr.

[Harke-1] Jan Dirk Harke : Roman law. From the classical period to the modern codifications . Beck, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-406-57405-4 ( floor plans of the law ), § 1 no. 9 (p. 9).

[2] Dig. 1,2,2,38.

[3] Marie Theres Fögen : Roman legal histories. About the origin and evolution of a social system. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2002 (Italian: Bologna 2006), ISBN 3-525-36269-2 , 175 ff.