Ulpianus

Ulpianus, DOMITIUS, a celebrated Roman jurist, born at Tyre about 170 A.D., who held juridical offices under Septimius Severus and Caracalla, and, on the accession of Alexander Severus (222), became his principal adviser and præfectus prætorio. He was murdered in a mutinous riot by his own soldiery in 228. Ulpian was a voluminous writer, and as a jurist he takes the first rank after Papinian. In the Digest of Justinian there are no fewer than 2462 excerpts from Ulpian, forming about a third of the whole. Of the originals, which are almost entirely lost, the principal were Ad Edictum, a commentary on the Edict in eighty-three books, and Ad Sabinum, a commentary on the Jus Civile in fifty-one books. The so-called Fragmenta of Ulpian, first published at Paris by Tilius in 1549, consist of twenty-nine titles—the Tituli ex Corpore Ulpiani, edited by Hugo (Berlin, 1834) and Böcking (Bonn, 1836). See Abdy and Walker, The Commentaries of Gaius and the Rules of Ulpian (1870; 3d ed. 1885).