Quintus Cervidius Scaevola (fl. ) was a Roman jurist of the
equestrian order
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. Both the ''
Historia Augusta
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[''Historia Augusta'', "Marcus Antoninus Philosophus"]
11.10
/ref> and the '' Tabula Banasitana'' attest that Scaevola was a member of Marcus Aurelius
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' ( AD 161–180) ''consilium'' or inner circle of advisors. Except that Papinian was his student, little more is known of Scaevola's life.
Books
Scaevola is credited with writing several works, from which excerpts have been preserved in Justinian
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's '' Digest'':[Paul Jörs]
"Cervidius 1"
''Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft
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'', Band III,2 (1899), Sp. 1988–1993
* ''Digesta'' in 40 books; while books 1-29 have ample extracts, there are few from the last 10, which led Paul Jörs to suspect that part of Scaevola's ''Digesta'' had been lost by the sixth century.[
* ''Quaestiones'' in 6 books.
* ''Responsa'' in 20 books.
* ''Quaestiones publice tractatae''
* ''Regulae'' in 4 books
]
References
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Ancient Roman jurists
2nd-century Romans
Praefecti vigilum
Ancient Roman equites
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