Titian (lawyer)

Titian was a late antique Roman jurist at the turn of the 4th to the 5th century.

His teacher could have been Marinian . All that is known about him is that Quintus Aurelius Symmachus had received a request from Rome itself or Mediolanum (today Milan ) around 400 to assess its quality. From there came the answer that Titian had a good knowledge of the law, which is why he was well suited for assessur ( officium iudicarium ) and advocacy ( officium forense ). Nothing is known about his further career.

In legal research, the hypothesis has been raised that there could be personal identity between Titian and one of two anonymous lawyers. According to research by Tony Honoré , Titian can be considered for the office of quaestor sacri palatii for the period between 419 and 422 , since this was the first time in the West - after more than 50 years - a qualified lawyer was active again. Another assumption is that he could have been Valentinian's unknown quaestor , who drafted several laws, in particular the citation law . The existing uncertainty is expanding insofar as the legal contemporary Helpidius fits in with it.

literature

Detlef Liebs : Jurisprudence in late antique Italy (260-640 AD) (= Freiburg legal-historical treatises. New series, volume 8). Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1987, p. 66.

Individual evidence

↑ ^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. 66.
^ Tony Honoré : The Making of the Theodosian Code. In: Journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History . Volume 103 (1986), pp. 133-222, here pp. 133 ff and 173 f.

personal data
SURNAME	Titian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Roman jurist
DATE OF BIRTH	4th century
DATE OF DEATH	5th century

[Liebs-1] Detlef Liebs : The jurisprudence in late antique Italy (260-640 AD) (= Freiburg legal-historical treatises. New series, volume 8). Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1987, p. 66.

[2] Tony Honoré : The Making of the Theodosian Code. In: Journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History . Volume 103 (1986), pp. 133-222, here pp. 133 ff and 173 f.