Arrius Menander

Arrius Menander was a Roman jurist of the late 2nd and early 3rd centuries AD who served on the imperial advisory council under Septimius Severus. After Caracalla took sole power in December 211, he was appointed head of the emperor's petition office, the post a libellis, succeeding the disgraced jurist Papinian in that role, and he is thought to have died in July 213 during a campaign against Germanic tribes. He specialized in military law, writing a dedicated treatise on the subject that survives only in fragments quoted in Justinian's Digest, and his recorded legal opinions and rescripts show a consistent tendency to favor soldiers in disputes over their rights and privileges. He was a contemporary of the jurist Ulpian, who cited his views in his own writings, underscoring his standing among the leading legal minds of the Severan imperial court.