A cognitionibus explained

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.[1] [2] [3] 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.[4] A studiis was a documentation office, and a cognitionibus was the office that studied the process of the emperor's appeal.[5] A correspondence office (ab epistulis) and an office that controlled the Roman Empire's finances (a rationibus) existed.[5]

In the Third century the offices of a libellis and a censibus or a libellis and a cognitionibus were merged.[6]

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.

Bibliography

. Fergus Millar . Rome, the Greek World, and the East: Government, Society, and Culture in the Roman Empire . 2 . . 2005 . 504 . 9780807863695.

Notes and References

  1. Book: Lara Peinado . Cabrero Piquero . Cordente Vaquero . Pino Cano . Federico . Javier . Félix . Juan Antonio . 2009 . Diccionario de instituciones de la Antigüedad . 19 April 2017 . 13 . 1ª . Fuenlabrada (Madrid) . Ediciones Cátedra (Grupo Anaya, Sociedad Anónima) . Spanish . 9788437626123.
  2. Dio 75, 15, 5
  3. Philostratus, VS, 2, 32
  4. Book: Varela Gil, Carlos . 2007 . El estatuto jurídico del empleado público en derecho romano . 19 April 2017 . 437 . . Librería-Editorial Dykinson . Spanish . 9788498491036.
  5. Web site: Administración del emperador . 19 April 2017 . Artehistoria . España . Spanish.
  6. Book: Lomas Salmonte . López Barja de Quiroga . Francisco Javier . Pedro . 2004 . Historia de Roma . 19 April 2017 . 704 . Madrid . . Spanish . 8446012251.