Publius Iuventius Celsus

Publius Iuventius Celsus Titus Aufidius Hoenius Severian was a Roman politician, Senator and lawyer. To distinguish him from his father, the lawyers Iuventius Celsus ( Celsus pater ), it is referred to as " Celsus filius ".

Origin

The full name of the lawyer has been handed down in D. 5, 3, 20, 6, but with two distortions: instead Titus stated in the Digest Titius, instead Hoenius (for which of course Oenius could be written ). Oenus, a word structure that is nowhere else attested as a name. Celsus probably came from northern Italy. While the family of luventii Celsi can not be traced further back, allowing the other name of the younger Celsus determining that Celsus filius was connected with the family of Hoenii Severi. This family, the n in the years 142 and 170 BC, both times with a T. Hoenius Severus (probably father and son), arrives at the consulate, came from the northern Umbria. A son must have been the consul of 164, P. Iuventius Celsus.

Life

In the year 106 or 107 Celsus was praetor. 114/115 was Celsus governor of Thracia, immediately afterwards, in the year 115, Celsus held the Suffektkonsulat. In the year 129 Celsus was a second time consul and then governor of Asia ( 129/130 ). Celsus was the successor of his father Iuventius Celsus in the proculianischen school of jurists. He belonged to the Consilium Hadrian and was instrumental in the Senatus consultum Iuventianum (129 AD). Involved. His style is lively and sharp-tongued. Celsus loved meaningful opposition -like formulations. So we owe him probably the only one designed by Roman jurists ever definition of ius ( law) as ars boni et Aequi ( "Law is the science of good and condoning " ( D.1.1.1. Pr) ). In addition, " The law is, not to know, to adhere to its wording but on their meaning and purpose " come from his pen, the golden rules lawyers ( D.1.3.17 ) and " Unjuristisch it is without the law as a whole to note to judge on the basis of any of its parts or expert opinion. " ( D.1.3.24 ) Furthermore, we owe his sharp tongue, the clever design of the delay adjustment in strict legal bonds and the responsum Celsinum on the foolish quaestio Domitiana. But Pliny complained rhetorical weaknesses. The main work of Celsus form the 39 libri digestorum, a compilation of legal cases.