Quintus Cervidius Scaevola

Quintus Cervidius Scaevola was a Roman jurist of equestrian rank who flourished from about AD 160 to 180, during the reign of Marcus Aurelius. He served as a member of the emperor's advisory council, the consilium principis, a role recorded in both the Historia Augusta and the Tabula Banasitana. His most celebrated pupil was Papinian, later regarded as the greatest of all Roman jurists, though little else is known of Scaevola's own life or public career. He wrote extensively, and his surviving works, preserved in fragments in Justinian's Digest, include forty books of Digesta, six books of Quaestiones, twenty books of Responsa, a collection of Quaestiones publice tractatae, and four books of Regulae.