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HERENNIUS MODESTINUS

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 642 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HERENNIUS

MODESTINUS  , a celebrated
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Roman jurist, who flourished about 250 B.C . He appears to have been a native of one of the Greek-speaking provinces, probably Dalmatia, and was a pupil of Ulpian . In Valentinian's Law of Citations he is classed with Papinian, Paulus,
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Gaius and Ulpian . He is mentioned in a rescript of Gordian in the
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year 240 B.C. in connexion with a responsum which he gave to the party to whom the rescript was addressed . No fewer than 345 passages in the
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Digest are taken from his writings .

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