A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . Fig. 91. — <in Rome, Vat. ADMINISTRATIVE REFORMS. 197 triumphal arch of Pentelic marble, adorned with reliefs (Plate XVI.).In legislative matters the emperors legal training stood him in goodstead; and, besides, he chose as his friend and councillor one of thegreatest jurists that Rome ever produced, — AemiUus Papinianus,— who for a long time, in the office a libellis, had the management ofpetitions and complaints to the emperor, and, in 203—1, was at thehead of the guard. During his administration
A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . Fig. 91. — <in Rome, Vat. ADMINISTRATIVE REFORMS. 197 triumphal arch of Pentelic marble, adorned with reliefs (Plate XVI.).In legislative matters the emperors legal training stood him in goodstead; and, besides, he chose as his friend and councillor one of thegreatest jurists that Rome ever produced, — AemiUus Papinianus,— who for a long time, in the office a libellis, had the management ofpetitions and complaints to the emperor, and, in 203—1, was at thehead of the guard. During his administration of the prefecture hehad as assistants two young men, who afterward, as leaders of thepraetorians and as jurists of the first rank, played an important part, —Julius Paulus, born, probably, at Padua, and Domitius Ulpianus, ofTyre, born in 170. The political policy of Severus tended to develop the absolutemonarchy. Its aim was to lower the predominant position of Italy andRome in the empire, to bring about the equality of the provinces, andto turn the principate into an absolute military government.
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