Quintus Cervidius Scaevola

One of the greatest jurists of the later second century, perhaps a pupil of Sextus Pomponius, Cervidius Scaevola came from Carthage. A popular consulting jurist and a casuist par excellence, Scaevola was chief of police in Rome in 175 and legal adviser of Marcus Aurelius. He taught Paul and Tryphoninus. He was the author of, among other things, a celebrated Digest (probably published posthumously) in forty books, and six books of responsa. He also annotated the Digests of Marcellus and Julian. Modestinus (D. 27.1.13.2) considered Scaevola one of the leading jurists, along with Ulpian and Paul. More than three hundred fragments of his work survived in Justinian’s Digest.