Furius Anthianus

Furius Anthianus (or possibly Furius Anthus) was a jurisconsult of ancient Rome of uncertain date,[1] though probably not later than the period of the emperor Alexander Severus,[2] that is, the 3rd century CE.[3][4]

Anthianus wrote a notable commentary on the Praetor's Edict, which is in the Florentine manuscript to the Digest (that is, the Littera Florentina). It is titled the Edict of Five Books (μέρος ἐδίκτου βιβλία πέντε), but there are only three extracts made from it in the Digest, and all of these are taken from the first book. This has led many to hold that the compilers of the Digest possessed only an imperfect copy of his work.[2]

Notes

1. Teuffel, Wilhelm Sigmund (1873). A History of Roman Literature. A History of Roman Literature. 2. G. Bell. p. 290. Retrieved 2016-01-09.
2. Pierre Fran Besier, Dissertatio philologico-juridica inauguralis de Furio Anthiano Jcto, ejusque, quae in Pand. exstant, fragmentis, Lug. Bat. 1803
3. Berger, Adolf (1953). Encyclopedic Dictionary of Roman Law. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. 43. The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. p. 480. ISBN 9781584771425. ISSN 0065-9746. Retrieved 2016-01-09.
4. Schulz, Fritz (1946). History of the Roman Legal Science. p. 201.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Graves, John Thomas (1870). "Anthianus (Anthus?), Furius". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. 1. p. 184.