Editing Trebatius Testa (section)

==Friendship with Cicero and the Caesars==

Some twenty years younger than [[Cicero]], Trebatius was both a familiar friend and a protégé of the latter.<ref>D R Shackleton Bailey trans., ''Cicero's Letters to his Friends'' (Atlanta 1988) p. xii and p. 828</ref> Cicero dedicated his ''Topica'' to Trebatius, and recommended Trebatius as a legal advisor to [[Julius Caesar]], calling him a thorough gentleman and a "leading light in civil law".<ref>D R Shackleton Bailey trans., ''Cicero's Letters to his Friends'' (Atlanta 1988) p. 73 ''ad fam.'' vii.5</ref>  Trebatius enjoyed Caesar's favor, making his fortune alongside him in Gaul, and supporting him in the Civil War.<ref>D R Shackleton Bailey trans., ''Cicero's Letters to his Friends'' (Atlanta 1988) p. 85 and p. 828</ref>

Later he also worked closely with [[Caesar Augustus|Augustus]], and was subsequently described in the [[Institutes (Justinian)|Institutes of Justinian]] as being of the greatest authority for Augustan law.<ref> A Bauman, ''Lawyers in Roman Transitional Politics'' (1985) p.124 (''Inst.'' 2.25 pr.)</ref>