Herennius Modestinus
A jurist and a legal teacher of the first half of the third century, Modestinus is considered the last representative of the classical Roman jurists, and in some sense a transitional figure between classical and postclassical jurisprudence.
Modestinus was mentioned in the Law of Citations of 426 ce among the five jurists with authority. We have scant information about his life. A pupil of Ulpian, Modestinus was living in Dalmatia, where he sought legal advice from his teacher (Ulpian, D. 47.2.52.20). He held the office of chief of police in Rome from 226 to 244. He wrote nine books on differentiae (legal distinctions), ten books on regulae (rules), and twelve on pandectae (encyclopedia). He was also the author of a Greek treatise in six books on exemptions from guardianship. Justinian’s compilers used over three hundred passages from his work.
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