Gnaeus Claudius Severus Arabianus

Gnaeus Claudius Severus Arabianus (c. 113) was a Roman politician, senator and philosopher.

The family of Severus came from Pompeiopolis in Paphlagonia. He was a son of Gaius Claudius Severus, who was 112 Suffektkonsul year. In 146 Severus became a full consul. His son Gnaeus Claudius Severus was 173 ordinary under his father Marcus Aurelius consul.

Severus was a man of spirit and had a great philosophical reputation. As followers of the Peripatetic philosophy, he was a teacher of the future Emperor Marcus Aurelius. In the Historia Augusta says, the young Marcus Aurelius have attended lectures with him, and the Emperor remembers him in his Meditations:

"My brother Severus was my role model in the love of my family and the truth and the right. Through him I became acquainted with a Thrasea, Cato, Dion and Brutus and won a notion of a state which has the civil and equal rights managed according to the same laws and the principle, and from one kingdom, where the freedom of citizens as respected all will. From him I was also taught to persevere in steadfast devotion to philosophy, to be charitable and generous to hope from my friends the best and to trust in their love, even to issue any disapproval without reserve against them and to do them frankly made ​​known, what I expect of them and what not, without letting them guess this only a long time. "