Lucius Pedanius Secundus
Lucius Pedanius Secundus (d. AD 61) was a
Lucius Cornelius Balbus in 40 BC.[2]
In the year 56, he was appointed Gaius Cassius Longinus,[i] approved the execution of all of Pedanius' four hundred slaves, in accordance with Roman law; an abridged version of Longinus' speech was preserved by Tacitus.[3] The people demanded the release of those slaves who were innocent, but Nero deployed the Roman army to prevent the mob from disrupting the executions.[3][4]
The Pedanii had their roots as Roman colonists in the town of
Tarraconensis. Secundus' descendants include a series of consuls, beginning with his son Gnaeus Pedanius Fuscus Salinator, consul in AD 61.[2]
See also
- Pedania (gens)
Footnotes
- ^ Not to be confused with the murderer of Caesar.
References
- Classical Quarterly, 28 (1978), pp. 407–426.
- ^ Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte, 17 (1968), p. 85
- ^ a b Publius Cornelius Tacitus, Annales, xiv. 42–45.
- ^ Anastasia Serghidou, Peur de l'esclave, peur de l'esclavage en Méditerranée ancienne ("Fear of Slaves, Fear of Enslavement in the Ancient Mediterranean"), Presses Universitaires de Franche-Comté, (2007), pp. 151, 152.
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