Furius Anthianus (or possibly Furius Anthus) was a

jurisconsult A jurist is a person with expert knowledge of law; someone who analyses and comments on law. This person is usually a specialist legal scholar, mostly (but not always) with a formal qualification in law and often a legal practitioner. In the U ...

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of uncertain date, though probably not later than the period of the emperor

Alexander Severus Marcus Aurelius Severus Alexander (1 October 208 – 21/22 March 235) was a Roman emperor, who reigned from 222 until 235. He was the last emperor from the Severan dynasty. He succeeded his slain cousin Elagabalus in 222. Alexander himself wa ...

, Pierre Fran Besier, ''Dissertatio philologico-juridica inauguralis de Furio Anthiano Jcto, ejusque, quae in Pand. exstant, fragmentis'', Lug. Bat. 1803 that is, the 3rd century AD. Anthianus wrote a notable commentary on the

Praetor's Edict The Praetor's Edict ''(Edictum praetoris)'' in ancient Roman law was an annual declaration of principles made by the new ''praetor urbanus'' – the elected magistrate charged with administering justice within the city of Rome.Such Edicts were also ...

, which is in the Florentine manuscript to the

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(that is, the ''

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''). It is titled the ''Edict of Five Books'' (μέρος ἐδίκτου βιβλία πέντε), but there are only three extracts made from it in the Digest, and all of these are taken from the first book. This has led many to hold that the compilers of the Digest possessed only an imperfect copy of his work.

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