__NoToC__ Lucius Pedanius Secundus (d. AD 61) was a

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of the first century. In AD 43, during the reign of

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, he was consul ''suffectus'' from the

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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.

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"The Ummidii"
'' Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte'', 17 (1968), p. 85 In the year 56, he was appointed ''

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'' by

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. Few details of his tenure are known; only that he was murdered in the year 61 by one of his slaves. The

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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 co ...

, approved the execution of all of Pedanius' four hundred slaves, in accordance with Roman law; an abridged version of Longinus' speech was preserved by

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. Publius Cornelius Tacitus, ''

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''
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42–45. The people demanded the release of those slaves who were innocent, but

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

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. Secundus' descendants include a series of consuls, beginning with his son Gnaeus Pedanius Fuscus Salinator, consul in AD 61.

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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 {{AncientRome-politician-stub

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