Gnaeus Pedanius Fuscus Salinator was a
Roman
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*Ancient Rome, Roman civilization from 8th century BC to 5th century AD
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senator
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who was active under the
Principate
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...
. He was
suffect consul
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in the ''
nundinium Nundinium was a Latin word derived from the word '' nundinum'', which referred to the cycle of days observed by the Romans. During the Roman Empire, ''nundinium'' came to mean the duration of a single consulship among several in a calendar year.
S ...
'' of July-August 61 as the colleague of
Lucius Velleius Paterculus. He is known entirely from inscriptions.
The
Pedanii were an affluent family, whose origins lie in the colony of Barcino (modern
Barcelona
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) in
Hispania Tarraconensis
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. Salinator may be the son of
Lucius Pedanius Secundus
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Lucius Pedanius Secundus (d. AD 61) was a Roman senator of the first century. In AD 43, during the reign of Claudius, he was consul ''suffectus'' from the Kalends of March to the Kalends of July, together with Sextus Palpellius Hister. ...
, consul in 43, and is thought to be the father of
Gnaeus Pedanius Fuscus Salinator, consul in 83 or 84.
[ Ronald Syme]
"The Ummidii"
'' Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte'', 17 (1968), p. 85
References
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1st-century Romans
Suffect consuls of Imperial Rome
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