A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. By various writers. Ed. by William Smith. Illustrated by numerous engravings on wood.

84 PAETUS. PAETUS.
1. P. AELIUS PAETUS, consul B C. 337, with with the Boii, and made a treaty with the Ingauni
C. Sulpicius Longus, and magister equitum 32]1, to Ligures. He was also in the same year appointed
the dictator Q. Fabius Ambustus. He was one a decemvir for the distribution of lands among the
of the first plebeian augurs, B. c. 300. (Liv. viii. veteran soldiers of Scipio, who had fought in Africa.
15, ix. 7, x. 9.) (Liv. xxxi. 4.) He was afterwards appointed a
2. P. AELIUS PAETUS, plebeian aedile B. c. 296. commissioner (triumvir) with his brother Sextus
(Liv. x. 23.) and Cn. Cornelius Lentulus to settle the affairs of
3. C. AELIUS PAETUS, consul B. C. 286, with Narnia, the people of which place complained that
M. Valerius Maximus Potitus (Fasti). there was not the proper number of colonists (co4. Q. AELIUS PA TUS, a tontifex who fell.in loni), and that certain persons, who were not coloni,
the battle of Cannae, B.C. 216. He had been a were passing themselves off as such. (Liv. xxxii. 2.)
candidate for the consulship for this year. (Liv. In B.C. 199, he was censor with P. Cornelius
xxiii. 21, comp. xxii. 35.) Scipio Africanus. He afterwards became an
5. P. AELIJS PAETUS, consul B. C. 201, a augur, and died B. C. 174, during a pestilence at
jurist. See below. Rome. (Liv. xli. 26.) Paetus is mentioned by
6. SEX. AELIUS PAETUS CATUS, consul B. C. Pomponius (Dig. 1. tit. 1. s. 2. ~ 37) as one of
198, a jurist. See below. those who professed the law (maximam scientiam
7. Q. ABLIUS P. F. Q. N. PAETUS (Fasti Capit.), in profitendo habuerunt), in the Roman sense of
son apparently of No. 5, and grandson of No. 4. that period.
He was elected augur B. c. 174, in place of his 2. SEX. AELIUS PAETUS, the brother of Publius,
father P. Aelius Paetus (Liv. xli. 21), and was was curule aedile B. C. 200, consul B.c. 198, with
consul B. C. 1 67, with M. Junius Pennus. He T. Quinctius Flamininus (Liv. xxxii. 7), and censor
obtained Gallia as his province, and his colleague B. C. 193 with Cn. Cornelius Cethegus. (Liv. xxxiv.
Pisae, but the two consuls performed nothing of 44, xxxv. 9.) During their censorship, the censors
importance, and returned to Rome after laying gave orders to the curule aediles to appoint distinct
waste the territory of the Ligurians. (Liv. xlv. ] 6, seats at the Ludi Romani for the senators, who up
44; Cic. Brut. 28.) This is the Aelius of whom to that time had sat promiscuously with others.
it is related by Valerius Maximus (iv. 3. ~ 7) and The Atrium of Libertas and the Villa Publica
Pliny (H. AN xxxiii. 11, s. 50), that the Aetolians were also repaired and enlarged by the censors.
sent him in his consulship magnificent presents of Sextus had a reputation as a jurist and a prudent
silver plate, since they had in a former embassy man, whence he got the cognomen Catus.
found him eating out of earthenware, and that he.. n =... al as,.. Egregie cordatus homo Catus Aelius Sextus
refused their gift. Valerius calls him Q. Aelius
Tubero Catus, and Pliny Catus Aelius; they both (Cic. de Orat. i. 45), which is a line of Ennius.
seem to have confounded him with other persons Sextus was a jurist of eminence, and also a
of the same name, and Pliny commits the further ready speaker. (Cic. Brut. c. 20.) Ile is enuerror of calling him the son-in-law of L. Aemilius merated among the old jurists who collected or
Paullus, the conqueror of Macedonia. [TUBERO.] arranged the matter of law (juris antiqui condilor;
8. AELIUS PAETTJS TUBERO. [TuBErto.] Cod. 7. tit. 7. s. 1), which he did in a work enThe annexed coin belongs to P. Aelius Paetus, titled Tripartita or Jus Aelianum. This was a
but it is uncertain to which person of the name. work on the Twelve Tables, which contained the oriIt bears on the obverse the head of Pallas, and' on ginal text, an interpretation, and the Legis actio
the reverse the Dioseuri. subjoined. It still existed in the time of Pomponius (Dig. 1. tit. 2. s. 2. ~ 38); and was probably
_* ~ ~the first commentary written on the Twelve
-<'. //, < Tables. Cicero (de Or. i. 56) speaks of his Coini*X ~ ___ i 3mentarii, which may or may not be a different!(-fN l -work from the Tripartita. Gellius (iv. 1) quotes
Servius Sulpicius, as citing an opinion of Catus
__ tr~gt% Aelius (or Sextus Aelius) on the meaning of the
__B.~ ~ ~ 8 oj ~@4-word Penus. The same passage is quoted by Ulpian, De Penu legata (33. tit. 9. s. 3. ~ 9), where
COIN OF P. AELIUS PAETUS. the common reading is Sextus Caecilius, which, as
Grotius contends, ought to be Sextus Aelius. He
PAETUS, AE'LIUS, jurists. 1. P. ARLIUS is also cited by Celsus (Dig. 19. tit. 1. s. 38), as
PAETUS, was probably the son of Q. Aelius Paetus, the text stands. The Aelius quoted by Cicero
a pontifex, who fell in the battle of Cannae. (Liv. (Top. c. 2) as authority for the meaning of "assixxiii. 21.) Publius was plebeian aedile B. C. 204, duus," is probably Sextus Aelius.
praetor B. C. 203 (Liv. xxix. 38), magister equitum Zimmern takes the Aelius mentioned in Cicero's
B. C. 202, and consul with C. Cornelius Lentulus Brutus (c. 46) to be the jurist, but this is obviously a
B. c. 201. Paetus held the urbana jurisdictio dur- mistake. (Brutus, ed. Meyer, c. 20, 46.) Meyer
ing his year of office as praetor, in which capacity also denies- that the whole work of Sextus on the
he published an edict for a supplicatio at Rome to Twelve Tables was called Jus Aelianum; he
commemorate the defeat of Syphax. (Liv. xxx. 17.) limits the name to that part which contained the
Otn the departure of Hannibal from Italy in the Actiones. Pomponius speaks of three other
same year, Paetus made the motion for a five days' " libri" as attributed to Sextus, but some denied
supplicatio. The year of the election of Paetus to that they were his. Cicero (de Or. iii. 33) refers
the consulship was memorable for the defeat of to Sextus as one of those who were consulted after
Hannibal by P. Cornelius Scipio at the battle of the old fashion.
Zama. (Liv. xxx. 40.) Paetus during his consul- (Grotius, Vitae Jurisconsultorumr; Zimmern,
ship had Italy for his province; he had a conflict Geschichte des Rom. Privatrechts, i. p. 279.) [G.L.]