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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Aemilius Papinianus rose through Rome's legal apparatus in the second century CE, serving as magister libellorum and attorney general before becoming praetorian prefect in 205 CE following the death of Gaius Fulvius Plautianus. His contemporaries called him "the Asylum of Right and Treasurer of the Laws," and third-year law students earned the title "Papinianistae" — those worthy to study him. The Law of Citations in 426 CE named him one of five jurists whose recorded views carried binding authority, with a crucial provision: whenever the other four disagreed, Papinian's opinion prevailed. His writings became primary sources for both the Codex Theodosianus and Corpus Juris Civilis. He was killed in 212 CE, but his legal reasoning outlasted the empire itself.