Aelius Marcianus was a

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who wrote after the death of

Septimius Severus Lucius Septimius Severus (; ; 11 April 145 – 4 February 211) was Roman emperor from 193 to 211. He was born in Leptis Magna (present-day Al-Khums, Libya) in the Roman province of Africa. As a young man he advanced through cursus honorum, the ...

, whom he calls ''Divus'' in his excerpts from the ''

Pandects The ''Digest'' (), also known as the Pandects (; , , "All-Containing"), was a compendium or digest of juristic writings on Roman law compiled by order of the Byzantine emperor Justinian I in 530–533 AD. It is divided into 50 books. The ''Dige ...

''. Other passages in the same source show that he was then writing under Antoninus Caracalla, the son and successor of Severus. It also appears from his ''Institutiones'' that he survived Caracalla. It is therefore probable that he also wrote under

Alexander Severus Marcus Aurelius Severus Alexander (1 October 208 – March 235), also known as Alexander Severus, was Roman emperor from 222 until 235. He was the last emperor from the Severan dynasty. Alexander took power in 222, when he succeeded his slain co ...

, whose reign commenced 222 AD. Caracalla died in 217. Another Aelius Marcianus is cited in the ''

'', who was

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in the time of

Antoninus Pius Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Pius (; ; 19 September 86 – 7 March 161) was Roman emperor from AD 138 to 161. He was the fourth of the Five Good Emperors from the Nerva–Antonine dynasty. Born into a senatorial family, Antoninus held var ...

. The works of Marcianus, from which there are excerpts in the ''

'', are: *Sixteen books of ''Institutiones'', from which there are excerpts in the ''Pandects'': this work was also used for the compilation of

Justinian Justinian I (, ; 48214 November 565), also known as Justinian the Great, was Roman emperor from 527 to 565. His reign was marked by the ambitious but only partly realized ''renovatio imperii'', or "restoration of the Empire". This ambition was ...

's ''

Institutions An institution is a humanly devised structure of rules and norms that shape and constrain social behavior. All definitions of institutions generally entail that there is a level of persistence and continuity. Laws, rules, social conventions and ...

''; *Two books on ''Publica Judicia''. *Two books on ''Appellationes''. *Five books titled ''Regularia''. *A single book on ''Delatores''. *A single book on the ''Hypothecaria Formula''. *A single book ''ad Sct. Turpillianum''. Marcianus also wrote notes on

Papinian Aemilius Papinianus (; ; 142 CE–212 CE), simply rendered as Papinian () in English, was a celebrated Roman jurist, ''magister libellorum'', attorney general (''advocatus fisci'') and, after the death of Gaius Fulvius Plautianus in 205 CE, ...

. Marcianus is cited by

Ulpian Ulpian (; ; 223 or 228) was a Roman jurist born in Tyre in Roman Syria (modern Lebanon). He moved to Rome and rose to become considered one of the great legal authorities of his time. He was one of the five jurists upon whom decisions were to ...

us and Paulus. There are 275 excerpts from Marcianus in the ''

''. There are

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s addressed by

to "A. Marcianus" and to "A. Martianus", which may be the same name, and one by Gordian to "A. Martianus" in the year 239;Cod. 4. tit. 21. s. 4 but this may be a different person from the jurist whose writings are excerpted in the ''Pandects''.

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