Alfenus Varus

Publius Alfenus Varus was a Roman lawyer and senator in the 1st century BC

Life

Publius Varus Alfenus came from Cremona in the Roman province of Cisalpine Gaul. He did not come from a senatorial family, for his father and perhaps he himself were shoemakers, presumably the holder of a manufacturer for shoes. He was a student of the then most famous jurists and gewesenen consul, Servius Sulpicius Rufus of. In addition to his legal activities but he was also interested in politics. His rise as a homo novus to Suffektkonsul the year 39 BC he owed certainly the turmoil of the Civil War by Gaius Julius Caesar's assassination, as many new people came to the Senate and the followers of the young Caesar (later Augustus ) and Mark Antony ascended. His future political career is just as handed down as his date of death.

Legal works

Alfenus Varus was an extraordinarily prolific legal writer whose effect lasted on the development and codification of Roman law until the time of the Emperor Justinian. His main work was the comprehensive 40 volumes of digesta, of which Julius Paul anfertigte an Epitome. In the Notices issued under Justinian 's Digest, however, not only the writings of Alfenus Varus were incorporated, but also numerous publications other Roman jurists, such as Publius Iuventius Celsus, of Publius Salvius Julianus and Ulpius Marcellus, but the importance of Alfenus Varus for this part of Code of Justinian results from the fact that at the name of this section of his term was elected Digest. Whether Alfenus Varus has also written the Coniectanea is not certain occupied.