Military Tribune Pay?

[Renatus]

Trhidly, as for the timeline... Well it's hard to tell. It could be written even at the end of II BC by Publius Rutilius Rufus or maybe by the author of Strategica? We don't know but we can say for sure that it was made a way before Digesta.

C. E. Brand (Roman Military Law, Austin: University of Texas Press, 1968, p. 138) cites Jean Mortreuil as rejecting Rutilius Rufus as too unlikely. What Mortreuil actually says (Histoire du Droit Byzantin I, Paris, 1843, p. 391) is, 'il ne faut certainement pas confondre ce Rufus comme l'ont fait quelques critiques avec P. Rutilius Rufus, consul de Rome en 649, qui n'a rien écrit sur le droit militaire.' Brand follows other scholars (H. Peter and M. von Schanz) in suggesting Sextus Ruffus Festus, who apparently served as a provincial governor and military commander under Valentinian II.

Brand quotes a ruling of Menander in the Digest which echoes Ruffus but states that the practice was that of earlier times. This indicates that Ruffus was pre-Justinian but not necessarily pre-Severan, as the passage could be subject to interpolation. The reviewer of Brand's book in the American Historical Review describes the Military Laws from Ruffus as 'a Byzantine treatise that has preserved much earlier material', which seems to imply a suggestion that it contains a mixture of material from different periods.

NB 649 in Mortreuil is AUC, not AD, i.e., 105 BC.