Aufidius Namusa was a Roman jurist and writer of the 1st century BC. He was one of the numerous pupils of
Servius Sulpicius Rufus. There were ten of Servius's students who wrote books (e.g.
Alfenus Varus
Alfenus Varus was an ancient Roman jurist and writer who lived around the 1st century BC.
Life
Alfenus Varus (whose praenomen might have been Publius) was a pupil of Servius Sulpicius Rufus, and the only pupil of Servius from whom there are any ...
), and from the works of eight of them Namusa compiled a work which was distributed into one hundred and eighty parts or divisions (''libri''). The work of Namusa is cited by
Ulpian, Javolenus, and
Paulus Paulus is the original Latin form of the English name Paul. It may refer to:
Ancient Roman
* Paul (jurist) or Julius Paulus (fl. 222–235 AD), Roman jurist
* Paulus (consul 496), politician of the Eastern Roman Empire
* Paulus (consul 512), R ...
[ Paul, Dig. 39. tit. 3. s. 2. § 6.] and we are thus made acquainted with some of the legal opinions of Servius.
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1st-century BC Romans
Ancient Roman jurists
Golden Age Latin writers
Ancient Roman writers
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