Papinian
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Papinian, Ulpian, Modestinus, and Paullus were the most noted of these lawyers; their works definitively fixed the Roman law.
From History Of Ancient Civilization by Charles Seignobos
But Ulpian and Paulus, Gaius and Papinian, were not authors of Responses.
From Ancient Law Its Connection to the History of Early Society by Sir Henry Sumner Maine
The honest labors of Papinian served only to inflame the hatred which Caracalla had already conceived against his father's minister.
From History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1 by Henry Hart Milman
Following Papinian other eminent jurists filled this office.
From A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Arthur Edward Romilly Boak
The celebrated lawyer Papinian was appointed Præfect after the fall of Plautianus; and several great jurisconsults, particularly Paulus and Ulpian, flourished under the reign of Severus or his family.
From A Smaller History of Rome by Sir William Smith
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