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MAECIANUS, LUCIUS VOLUSIUS (2nd cent.)

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 297 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MAECIANUS, See also:LUCIUS VOLUSIUS (2nd cent.) See also:Roman jurist, was the See also:tutor in See also:law of the See also:emperor See also:Marcus Aurelius. When See also:governor of See also:Alexandria he was slain by the soldiers, as having participated in the See also:rebellion of Avidius See also:Cassius (175). Maecianus was the author of See also:works on See also:trusts (Fideicommissa), on the Judicia publica, and of a collection of the Rhodian See also:laws See also:relating to maritime affairs. His See also:treatise on numerical divisions, weights and See also:measures (Distributio) is extant, with the exception of the concluding portion. See Capitolinus, See also:Antoninus, 3; Vulcacius Gallicanus, Avidius Cassius, 7; edition of the metrological See also:work by F. Hultsch in Metrologicorum scriptorum reliquiae, ii. (1866) ;Mominsen inAbhandlungen der sdchsischen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften, iii. (1853).

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