Quintus Pedius

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Quintus Pedius († November 43 BC in Rome ) was a Roman senator of the late Republic and nephew or great-nephew of the dictator Gaius Iulius Caesar .

He was the son of an unknown Marcus or Quintus Pedius. According to Suetonius , he belonged to Caesars sororum nepotes (literally: "grandson of the sisters") and was therefore, as the grandson of the elder Julia , one of Caesar's two sisters, his great-nephew. However, from chronological considerations it has been thought possible that Quintus Pedius was actually a son of Juliet and thus Caesar's nephew. His wife came from the family of the Valerii Messallae .

Pedius was born in 57 BC. Chr. Legat Caesar in Gaul . Perhaps he was one of the legates of Caesar's not known by name in the previous year and was probably in this position with his (great) uncle for a longer period of time. As Cicero's remarks indicate, he applied for the office of curular aedile for the year 54 in vain . After the outbreak of the civil war, Pedius was in 48 BC. Chr. Praetor and hit the uprising of a legion Titus Annius Milo down. From 46 to 45 BC He was a legate of Caesar in the last phase of the civil war in Spain. Caesar granted him a triumph that Pedius won on December 13, 45 BC. He celebrated although he, like the equally honored Quintus Fabius Maximus , only fought as a legate of Caesar in Spain and only later received the empire of a proconsul .

In his on September 13, 45 BC Caesar Pedius, together with another great (?) Nephew, Lucius Pinarius Scarpus , set up the last quarter of his estate to inherit the last quarter of his property, while the third great-nephew Gaius Octavius, who later became Octavian / Augustus , adopted three quarters received. All that is known about Pedius' behavior in the first phase of the conflict after the dictator's death is that he supported his relative Octavian and left him his inheritance. When Octavian after a march on Rome on August 19, 43 BC. Chr. Was elected consul, he made Pedius his colleague. On Octavian's behalf, Pedius passed a law, named after him lex Pedia , which was supposed to give the struggle against Caesar's murderers a legal coating. After Octavian left Rome, Pedius made sure that the Senate repealed the declaration of Mark Antony and Lepidus as enemies of the state, a step towards the Second Triumvirate . Pedius published the first triumvir proscription lists , but died shortly thereafter.

An inscription in 41 BC Quintus Pedius, attested as quaestor , was probably a son of the consul and can possibly also be identified with a Pedius (Publicola) mentioned by Horace as a speaker. A grandson, who was also called Quintus Pedius, was mute from birth and, at the instigation of his relative Messalla Corvinus, was trained to be a talented painter with the permission of Augustus, but died young.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ The Filiation M. f. in the triumphal fasts; Q. f. in the Fasti Colotiani .
  2. ↑ a b Suetonius, Divus Iulius 83, 2 .
  3. ↑ Friedrich Münzer , From the circle of relatives of Caesars and Octavians , in: Hermes 71 (1936), pp. 222-230, especially pp. 227-230, which refers to Pedius' career and the age of his presumed son (see below).
  4. ↑ a b Pliny the Elder , naturalis historia 35, 7, 21 .
  5. ^ Caesar, de bello Gallico 2, 2, 1 and 2, 11, 3.
  6. ^ Caesar, de bello Gallico 1, 52, 1.
  7. ^ Cicero, Pro Cn. Plancio 17 and 54.
  8. ^ Caesar, de bello civili , 3, 22.
  9. ↑ [Caesar], de bello Hispaniensi 2, 2; 12, 2; Cassius Dio 43, 31, 1.
  10. ^ Triumphal fasting : Q. Pedius M. f. pro co (n) s (ule) ex Hispania idib. Dec. a. DCCI [IX] .
  11. ^ Cassius Dio 43, 42, 1.
  12. ^ Appian , Civil Wars 3, 94 .
  13. ↑ Velleius Paterculus 2, 65, 2 (incorrectly dated 23 September); Appian, Civil Wars 3, 94; Cassius Dio 46, 46.
  14. ↑ Velleius Paterculus 2, 69, 5; see. Res Gestae Divi Augusti 2; Suetonius, Nero 3, 1; Appian, Civil Wars 3, 95.
  15. ^ Appian, Civil Wars 3, 96; Cassius Dio 46, 52, 3-4.
  16. ^ Appian, Civil Wars 4, 6.
  17. ↑ CIL 6,358 .
  18. ↑ Horace, sermones 1, 10, 28.
personal data
SURNAME Pedius, Quintus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman senator, suffect consul 43 BC Chr.
DATE OF BIRTH 1st century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH November 43 BC Chr.
Place of death Rome