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See also:MARCUS ANTISTIUS See also:LABEO (c. 50 B.C.–A.D. 18) , See also:Roman jurist, was the son of See also:Pacuvius Antistius See also:Labeo, a jurist who caused himself to be slain after the defeat of his party at See also:Philippi . A member of the plebeian See also:nobility, and in easy circumstances, the younger Labeo See also:early entered public See also:life, and soon See also:rose to the praetorship; but his undisguised antipathy to the new regime, and the somewhat brusque manner in which in the See also:senate he occasionally gave expression to his republican sympathies—what See also:Tacitus (See also:Ann. iii . 75) calls his incorrupta libertasproved an obstacle to his See also:advancement, and his See also:rival, Ateius See also:Capito, who had unreservedly given in his See also:adhesion to the ruling See also:powers, was promoted by See also:Augustus to the consulate, when the See also:appointment should have fallen to Labeo; smarting under the wrong done him, Labeo declined the See also:office when it was offered to him in a subsequent See also:year (Tac . Ann. iii . 75; Pompon, in fr . 47, Dig. i . 2) . From this See also:time he seems to have devoted his whole time to See also:jurisprudence . His training in the See also:science had been derived principally from Trebatius Testa . To his knowledge of the See also:law he added a wide See also:general culture, devoting his See also:attention specially to dialectics, See also:philology (grammatica), and antiquities, as valuable See also:aids in the exposition, expansion, and application of legal See also:doctrine (See also:Gell. xiii . 1o) . Down to the time of See also:Hadrian his was probably the name of greatest authority; and several of his See also:works were abridged and annotated by later hands . While Capito is hardly ever referred to, the dicta of Labeo are of See also:constant recurrence in the writings of the classical jurists, such as Gains, See also:Ulpian and See also:Paul; and no inconsiderable number of them were thought worthy of preservation in Justinian's See also:Digest . Labeo gets the See also:credit of being the founder of the Proculian See also:sect or school, while Capito is spoken of as the founder of the rival Sabinian one (See also:Pomponius in fr . 47, Dig. i . 2); but it is probable that the real founders of the two scholae were Proculus and Sabinus, followers respectively of the methods of Labeo and Capito . Labeo's most important See also:literary See also:work was the Libri Posteriorum, so called because published only after his See also:death . It contain=ed a systematic exposition of the See also:common law . His Libri ad Edictum embraced a commentary, not only on the edicts of the See also:urban and peregrine praetors, but also on that of the See also:curule aediles . His Probabilium (ir Oavwv) See also:lib . VIII., a collection of See also:definitions and axiomatic legal propositions, seems to have been one of his most characteristic productions . See See also:van See also:Eck, " De vita, moribus, et studiis M . See also:Ant . Labeonis " (See also:Franeker, 1692), in Oelrichs's Thes. nov., vol. i.; Mascovius, De sectis Sabinianor. et Proculianor . (1728) ; Pernice, M . Antistius Labeo . Das ronz . Privatrecht See also:im ersten Jahrhunderte der Kaizerzeit (See also:Halle, 1873-1892) . |
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