Sextus Pomponius

A teacher and prolific writer under Hadrian, Antoninus Pius, and Marcus Aurelius, Pomponius is known only by his legal works and from quotations by other Roman jurists. More than five hundred passages of Pomponius survived in Justinian’s Digest.

Pomponius probably held no office, and he did not give public answers (responsa). His introduction to law (enchiridium), written around 131 ce, was the first, and for a long time only, work on legal history. The compilers of Justinian’s Digest excerpted a long fragment of it (D. 1.2.2). He was the author of large commentaries on the works of Quintus Mucius and Sabinus, an extensive commentary on the praetorian edict, and mono­graphs on various topics (stipulations, senatorial resolutions, trusts, and so on). Although he was not a creative jurist, he made an important contribu­tion, founding the pillars of legal history and consolidating the structure of private law.

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