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PAPINIAN (AEanLtus PAPINIANUS)

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PAPINIAN (AEanLtus PAPINIANUS) , See also:Roman jurist, was magister libellorum and afterwards praetorian See also:prefect under Septimius See also:Severus. He was an intimate friend of the See also:emperor, whom he accompanied to See also:Britain, and before his See also:death Severus specially commended his two sons to his See also:charge. Papinian tried to keep See also:peace between the See also:brothers, but with no better result than to excite the hatred of See also:Caracalla, to which he See also:fell a victim in the See also:general slaughter of See also:Geta's See also:friends which followed the fratricide of A.D. 212. The details are variously related, and have undergone legendary embellishment, but the See also:murder of Papinian, which took See also:place under Caracalla's own eyes, was one of the most disgraceful crimes of that See also:tyrant. Little more is known about Papinian. He was perhaps a Syrian by See also:birth, for he is said to have been a kinsman of Severus's second wife, Julia Domna; that he studied See also:law with Severus under See also:Scaevola is asserted in an interpolated passage in Spartian (See also:Caracal. c. 8). Papinian's place and See also:work as a jurist are discussed under ROMAN LAW.

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