Paternus
2 Păternus, ī, m. , nom dʼhomme : Mart. 12, 53, 2 || nom dʼun hérésiarque : Isid.
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.