A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology

Smith, William

A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. William Smith, LLD, ed. 1890

a Roman jurist, who probably flourished between the time of Tiberius and Vespasian.

He ought not to be confounded (as Panziroli has done, De claris Interpr. Juris. 38) with the Julius Ferox who was consul,A. D. 100, in the reign of Trajan (Plin. Ep. 2.11, 7.13), and who is mentioned in an ancient inscription (Gruter, vol. i. p. 349) as curator alvei et riparum Tiberis et cloacarum. The jurist Ferox was certainly anterior to the jurist Julianus, who, according to the Florentine Index to the Digest, wrote four books upon Urseius.

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