Sextus Papirius

Caius or Sextus Papirius , whose exact first name ( praenomen ) and whose specific life dates have not been handed down, probably clothed around 510 BC. The office of pontifex maximus . In this function he presumably fixed a collection of sacred norms , the ius papirianum , which contained statutes on funeral and sacrificial rites on the one hand and violations of religious regulations on the other. This set of rules is said to have resulted from practicing, pontifical activity.

In the late Roman Republic , these statutes were classified under the traditional royal laws ( leges regiae ). The codex, which has not been handed down, is said to have been available to classical lawyers up to the end of the 2nd century.

literature

Marieluise Deißmann-Merten : Papirius 1-5 .. In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 4, Stuttgart 1972, column 488.
Max Kaser : Roman legal history : Verlag Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1976, 2nd revised edition, ISBN 3-525-18102-7 , p. 64.
Wolfgang Kunkel , Martin Schermaier : Roman legal history. 13th edition, Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2001, ISBN 978-3-8252-2225-3 , pp. 33-34.

personal data
SURNAME	Sextus Papirius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Pontifex maximus
DATE OF BIRTH	6th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	6th century BC BC or 5th century BC Chr.