Paternus, Tarrunte'nus
a jurist, is probably the same person who was praefectts praetorio under Commodus (Lamprid.
Conommod. 4 ;
D. C. 72.5), and was put to death by the emperor on a charge of treason. he was the anthor of a work in four books, entitled
De Re Militari or
Militarissm, from which there are two excerpts in the Digest.
He is also mentioned by Vegetius (
De Re Militari, 1.8), who calls him "Diligenltissinus assertor juris mlilitaris." Paternts is cited by Macer (
Dig. 49. tit. 16. s. 7), who wrote under Alexander Severus.
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