In Ancient Rome, a cognitionibus was one of the four offices in the chancellor's Imperial Rome office that helped the emperor in his judicial function. It was a formal office function, like the ad legationes.
With the restoration in Hadrian's era, it is possible that the office a libellis dominated the other three: a cognitionibus, a studiis and a censibus. A studiis was a documentation office, and a cognitionibus was the office that studied the process of the emperor's appeal. A correspondence office (ab epistulis) and an office that controlled the Roman Empire's finances (a rationibus) existed.
In the Third century the offices of a libellis and a censibus or a libellis and a cognitionibus were merged.
Marcius Agrippa was a cognitionibus and ab epistulis of Caracalla.
Popular culture
The a cognitionibus appears in works of Cassius Dio and Philostratus performing a job that arranges the order of cases before the emperor and summoning litigants into the auditorium.
References
- Lara Peinado, Federico; Cabrero Piquero, Javier; Cordente Vaquero, Félix; Pino Cano, Juan Antonio (2009). Diccionario de instituciones de la Antigüedad (in Spanish) (1ª ed.). Fuenlabrada (Madrid): Ediciones Cátedra (Grupo Anaya, Sociedad Anónima). p. 13. ISBN 9788437626123. Retrieved 19 April 2017.
- Dio 75, 15, 5
- Philostratus, VS, 2, 32
- ^ Millar 2005, p. 19.
- Varela Gil, Carlos (2007). El estatuto jurídico del empleado público en derecho romano (in Spanish). Universidad Autónoma de Madrid: Librería-Editorial Dykinson. p. 437. ISBN 9788498491036. Retrieved 19 April 2017.
- ^ "Administración del emperador". Artehistoria (in Spanish). España. Retrieved 19 April 2017.
- Lomas Salmonte, Francisco Javier; López Barja de Quiroga, Pedro (2004). Historia de Roma (in Spanish). Madrid: Ediciones Akal. p. 704. ISBN 8446012251. Retrieved 19 April 2017.
- Millar 2005, p. 17.
Bibliography
- Millar, Fergus (2005). Rome, the Greek World, and the East: Government, Society, and Culture in the Roman Empire. Vol. 2. Univ of North Carolina Press. p. 504. ISBN 9780807863695.
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