Arrianus (jurist)

Arrianus was a Roman jurisconsult of uncertain date. He probably lived under Trajan, and, according to the conjecture of Grotius, is perhaps the same person as the orator Arrianus, who corresponded with Pliny the Younger. [Pliny the Younger, "Epistulae" i. 2, ii. 11,12, iv. 8, viii. 21] He may also possibly be identical with the Arrianus Severus, "praefectus aerarii", whose opinion concerning a constitution "Divi Trajani" is cited by Aburnus Valens. [Pandects, 49. tit. 14. s. 42] He wrote a treatise "de Interdictis" of which the second book is quoted in the Pandects in an extract from Ulpian. ["Pandects", 5. tit. 3. s. 1.1] In that extract, Proculus, who lived under Tiberius, is mentioned in such a manner, that he might be supposed to have written after Arrianus. There is no direct extract from Arrianus in the Pandects, though he is several times mentioned. [Majansius, vol. ii. p. 219] [Zimmern, "Röm. Rechts-Geschichte" i. § 90] [Citation
last = Graves
first = John Thomas
author-link =
contribution = Arrianus (5)
editor-last = Smith
editor-first = William
title = Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology
volume = 1
pages = 353
publisher =
place = Boston
year = 1867
contribution-url = http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0362.html ]

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