Paternus, Tarrutēnius
A Roman jurist, probably the person who as praetorian praefector was put to death by
Commodus for alleged treason (Lamprid.
Comm. 4). He wrote a treatise in four
books called
Militarium, or
De Re Militari, quoted in the
Digest. See Dirksen in his
Hinterlassen Schriften, ii. 412.