Paternus, Tarruntenus
a jurist, is probably the same person who was praefectts praetorio under Commodus (Lamprid. Conommod. 4; D. C. 72.5), and was put to death by the emperor on a charge of treason. he was the anthor of a work in four books, entitled De Re Militari or Militarissm, from which there are two excerpts in the Digest. He is also mentioned by Vegetius (De Re Militari, 1.8), who calls him "Diligenltissinus assertor juris mlilitaris." Paternts is cited by Macer (Dig. 49. tit. 16. s. 7), who wrote under Alexander Severus.
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.