What is "papirius"

Papirius is the name of a gens whose most notable members were active mainly during the Roman Republic.

• Papirius, pontifex in 509 BC, was the author of a supposed collection of Leges Regiae, referred to as the Ius Papirianum.
• Lucius Papirius, a creditor whose sexually motivated abuse of his bond slave is supposed to have led to the abolishment of debt bondage in Rome; see nexum.
• Lucius Papirius Cursor, consul five times during the 320s and 310s BC, dictator twice, and a general.
• Gaius Papirius Carbo, consul in 120 BC.
• Gnaeus Papirius Carbo, consul in 113 BC, brother of the consul of 120.
• Gaius Papirius Carbo, a tribune c. 90 BC, son of the consul of 120 BC.
• Gnaeus Papirius Carbo, son of the consul of 113 BC, consul three times during the civil wars of the 80s BC as part of the faction of Marius and Cinna.
• Gnaeus Papirius Aelianus, governor of Roman Britain c. 145–147.
• Papirius Fabianus, c. 30 AD, philosopher

Category:Ancient Roman prosopographical lists

Papirius was the first known Pontifex Maximus of the Roman Republic, dating to 509 BC. He is credited with a collection of Roman laws known as the Ius Papirianum or Ius Civile Papirianum, which ancient sources regarded as leges regiae, laws from the Regal period. His praenomen is given variously as Gaius, Sextus, or Publius.