Paternus

1. An orator mentioned by the elder Seneca. (Controy. v. Praef.)

2. A friend of the younger Pliny, who has ad dressed three letters to him. (Ep. i. 21, 4.14, 8.16.) He may perhaps be the Paternus, whom Martial (12.53) satirizes as a miser.

3. Paternus also occurs in the Fasti as the name of several consuls, namely, in A. D. 233, 267, 268, 269, 279, and 443.

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. [G.L]

A Roman jurist, probably the person who as praetorian praefector was put to death by Commodus for alleged treason (Lamprid. Comm. 4). He wrote a treatise in four books called Militarium, or De Re Militari, quoted in the Digest. See Dirksen in his Hinterlassen Schriften, ii. 412.