Other republican jurists
Beyond the circle of the pupils of Servius, three distinguished jurists flourished at the end of the Republic: Aelius Tubero, Aulus Cascelius, and Trebatius Testa. A pupil of Ofilius, Aulus Tubero was the son-in-law of Servius Sulpicius Rufus (Pomponius, D.
1.2.2.51) and, as a result, the natural link between Servius’s circle and the other jurists. He wrote on the Senate and on the duties of judges. cascelius, pupil of Volcatius, was an independent mind and a strong supporter of traditional republican ideals. He held the office of quaestor (c. 74 bce), and he rejected Augustus’s offer to become consul (Pomponius, D. 1.2.2.45). When friends urged him not to speak so freely against the newThe jurists and the legal science 67 order instituted by Augustus, he replied that two things gave him complete freedom of speech: his old age and childlessness (Valerius Maximus 6.2.12). The last jurist, Trebatius, pupil of Cornelius Maximus, enjoyed so much attention in Cicero’s works that Cicero dedicated his famous Topica to Trebatius and recommended Trebatius as a legal adviser to Julius Caesar. Trebatius also enjoyed the favor of Emperor Augustus, who suggested that informal codicils could be recognized as valid (Inst. 2.25). Trebatius was the teacher of the top jurist of the age of Augustus: Marcus Antistius Labeo.
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