Sextus Pomponius was a

jurist 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 Uni ...

who lived during the reigns of

Hadrian Hadrian (; la, Caesar Trâiānus Hadriānus ; 24 January 76 – 10 July 138) was Roman emperor from 117 to 138. He was born in Italica (close to modern Santiponce in Spain), a Roman ''municipium'' founded by Italic settlers in Hispania B ...

Antoninus Pius Antoninus Pius (Latin: ''Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Pius''; 19 September 86 – 7 March 161) was Roman emperor from 138 to 161. He was the fourth of the Five Good Emperors from the Nerva–Antonine dynasty. Born into a senatoria ...

and

Marcus Aurelius Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (Latin: áːɾkus̠ auɾέːli.us̠ antɔ́ːni.us̠ English: ; 26 April 121 – 17 March 180) was Roman emperor from 161 to 180 AD and a Stoic philosopher. He was the last of the rulers known as the Five Good ...

. Other writers have expressed a view that the name Pomponius Sextus was shared by another jurist, although Puchta (Cursus der Institution, vol. i. p. 444) suggested the assumption of two "Pomponii" lacked reason. He wrote a book on the law up to the time of Hadrian, known as the '' Enchiridion of Sextus Pomponius''.

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Ancient Roman jurists 2nd-century Romans Year of birth unknown Year of death unknown

Pomponius The gens Pomponia was a plebs, plebeian family at ancient Rome. Its members appear throughout the history of the Roman Republic, and into Roman Empire, imperial times. The first of the gens to achieve prominence was Marcus Pomponius, tribune of ...

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