Lucius Volusius Maecianus

Lucius Volusius Maecianus was a Roman jurist who lived from around 110 to 175 AD and served the emperors Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius. Beginning his career as a member of the equestrian order, he rose through a series of administrative posts to become prefect of Egypt in 161, the same year in which Marcus Aurelius raised him to senatorial rank; he personally tutored the future emperor in law, later reached the suffect consulship around 166, and was appointed prefect of the imperial treasury so as to remain close to the emperor. He wrote a sixteen-book treatise on trusts, works on public prosecutions and on maritime law drawing on Rhodian tradition, and a surviving treatise on weights and measures, the Assis Distributio.