DOMITIUS ULPIAN
\dəmˈɪʃəs ˈʌlpi͡ən], \dəmˈɪʃəs ˈʌlpiən], \d_ə_m_ˈɪ_ʃ_ə_s ˈʌ_l_p_iə_n]\
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An eminent Roman jurist; born about 170 A. D. (?) in Tyre; killed 228 A. D. Alexander Severus made him his secretary and praetorian prefect; the praetorian soldiers mutinied and murdered him. He was the author of a work entitled "Ad Edictum", and other legal treatises greatly valued, all now lost but a few fragments.
By Charles Dudley Warner
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