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How did Papinian serve Septimius Severus?

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He was a close friend of the Roman emperor Septimius Severus , under whom he was libellorum magister [master of the rolls] and later Praetorian prefect; but Severus' son Caracalla had Papinian put to death for reasons that are obscure.

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