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About Aemilius Papinianus
- Aemilius Papinianus (Greek: ??µ????? ?ap???a???) (142 CE–212 CE), also known as Papinian, was a celebrated Roman jurist, magister libellorum, attorney general (advocatus fisci) and, after the death of Gaius Fulvius Plautianus in 205 CE, praetorian prefect. Papinianus was one of the most revered jurists in ancient Rome, as third year law students were given the title "Papinianistae" (meaning "they that are worthy to study Papinian").
- In his time, he had been called "the Asylum of Right and Treasurer of the Laws".
- Along with Gaius, Paulus, Modestinus and Ulpian, he was made one of the five jurists whose recorded views were considered decisive by the Law of Citations of 426 CE; their views would later be considered the only suitable ones to be cited as primary sources for the Codex Theodosianus and the Corpus iuris civilis, provided that Papinian's views prevailed whenever those of the four other jurists were not congruent.
- French jurist Jacques Cujas later wrote that "there was never such a great lawyer before, nor ever will be after him".
