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Lucius Pedanius Secundus (d. AD 61) was a
Roman
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senator
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of the first century. In AD 43, during the reign of
Claudius
Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (; 1 August 10 BC – 13 October AD 54) was the fourth Roman emperor, ruling from AD 41 to 54. A member of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, Claudius was born to Nero Claudius Drusus, Drusu ...
, he was
consul ''suffectus'' from the
Kalends
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of March to the Kalends of July, together with
Sextus Palpellius Hister. Secundus was the first senator from the Spanish provinces to achieve the rank of consul since the anomalous tenure of
Lucius Cornelius Balbus in 40 BC.
Ronald Syme
Sir Ronald Syme, (11 March 1903 – 4 September 1989) was a New Zealand-born historian and classicist. He was regarded as the greatest historian of ancient Rome since Theodor Mommsen and the most brilliant exponent of the history of the Roman ...
"The Ummidii"
'' Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte'', 17 (1968), p. 85
In the year 56, he was appointed ''
praefectus urbi
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'' by
Nero
Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus ( ; born Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus; 15 December AD 37 – 9 June AD 68), was the fifth Roman emperor and final emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, reigning from AD 54 un ...
. Few details of his tenure are known; only that he was murdered in the year 61 by one of his slaves. The
senate
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, moved, among others, by
Gaius Cassius Longinus
Gaius Cassius Longinus (c. 86 BC – 3 October 42 BC) was a Roman senator and general best known as a leading instigator of the plot to assassinate Julius Caesar on 15 March 44 BC. He was the brother-in-law of Brutus, another leader of the cons ...
, 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
Publius Cornelius Tacitus, known simply as Tacitus ( , ; – ), was a Roman historian and politician. Tacitus is widely regarded as one of the greatest Roman historiography, Roman historians by modern scholars.
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.
Publius Cornelius Tacitus
Publius Cornelius Tacitus, known simply as Tacitus ( , ; – ), was a Roman historian and politician. Tacitus is widely regarded as one of the greatest Roman historians by modern scholars.
The surviving portions of his two major works—the ...
, ''Annales
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''
xiv
42–45. The people demanded the release of those slaves who were innocent, but
Nero
Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus ( ; born Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus; 15 December AD 37 – 9 June AD 68), was the fifth Roman emperor and final emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, reigning from AD 54 un ...
deployed the Roman army to prevent the mob from disrupting the executions.
[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.]
The Pedanii had their roots as Roman colonists in the town of
Barcino in
Tarraconensis
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. Secundus' descendants include a series of consuls, beginning with his son
Gnaeus Pedanius Fuscus Salinator
Gnaeus Pedanius Fuscus Salinator was a Roman senator active in the late 1st century AD. He is estimated to have been born between BCE 29 and 91 He was suffect consul in either AD 83 or 84. Salinator is known to have been proconsular governor of As ...
, consul in AD 61.
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See also
* Pedania (gens)
The gens Pedania was a minor plebeian family at Rome. Members of this gens are first mentioned at the time of the Second Punic War, but they achieved little prominence until imperial times, when the ill-starred Lucius Pedanius Secundus attained t ...
Footnotes
References
External links
Tacitus, ''Annales'' xiv. 42–45
Suffect consuls of Imperial Rome
Urban prefects of Rome
61 deaths
Year of birth unknown
Ancient Roman murder victims
Secundus
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