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164 PEDIUS. PEDIUS.
abandon the project (c. 32, 33). Irritated by his elected consul along with Pedius. The latter
disappointment, Astyochus turned a deaf ear to the forthwith, at the instigation of his colleague, proapplication which the Chians made for assistance posed a law, known by the name of the Lex Pedia,
when the Athenians fortified Delphinium, and by which all the murderers of Julius Caesar were
Pedaritus in his despatches to Sparta complained punished with aquae et ignis infterdictio. Pedins
of the admiral's conduct, in consequence of which was left in charge of the city, while Octavius
a- commission was sent out to inquire into it.- (Thuc. marched into the north of Italy, and as the latter
viii. 38, 40.) Pedaritus himself seems to have had now determined to join Antonius and Lepidus,
acted with great harshness at Chios, in consequence Pedius proposed in the senate the repeal of the
of which some Chian exiles laia complaints against sentence of outlawry which had been pronounced
him at Sparta, and his mother Teleutia adminis- against them. To this the senate was obliged to
tered a rebuke to him in a letter. (Plut. Apoplhth. give an unwilling consent; and soon afterwards
Lac. p. 241, d). Meantime the Athenians con- towards the close of the year there was formed at
tinued their operations at Chios, and had completed Bononia the celebrated triumvirate between Octatheir works. Pedaritus sent to Rhodes, where the vius, Antonius and Lepidus. As soon as the
Peloponnesian fleet was lying, saying that Chios news reached Rome that the triumvirs had made
would fall into the hands of the Athenians unless out a list of persons to be put to death, the utmost
the whole Peloponnesian armament came to its consternation prevailed, more especially as the
succour. He himself meantime made a sudden names of those who were doomed had not transattack on the naval camp of the Athenians, and pired. During the whole of the night on which
stormed it; but the main body of the Athenians the news arrived, Pedius was with difficulty able
coming up he was defeated and slain, in the begin- to prevent all open insurrection; and on the folning of B. c. 411. (Thuc. viii. 55.) [C. P.M.] lowing morning, being ignorant of the decision of
PEDA'RIUS, L. COMI'NIUS. [COMINIUS, the triumvirs, he declared that only seventeen
No. 8.] persons should be put to death, and pledged the
PEDIA'NUS, ASCO'NIUS. [AscoNIus.] public word for the safety of all others. But the
PE'DIAS (eIIEtas), a daughter of Menys of La- fatigue to which he had been exposed was so great
cedaemon, and the wife of Caranus, king of Attica, that it occasioned his death on the succeeding
from whom an Attic phyle and demos derived their night. (Cic. ad Att. ix. 14; Caesar, B. C. iii. 22;
name. (Apollod. iii. 14. ~ 5; Plut. Themist. 14; Auctor, B. Hisp. 2; Suet. Caes. 83; Dion Cass.
Steph. Byz. s. v.) [L. S.] xliii. 31, 42, xlvi. 46, 52; Appian, B. C. iii. 22,
PEDIA'SIMUS, JOANNES. [JOANNES, 94, 96, iv. 6; Plin. I. N. xxxv. 4. s. 7; Vell.
No. 61.] Pat. ii. 69; Suet. Ner. 3, Galb. 3.)
PE'DTIUS. 1. Q. PEDIUS, the great-nephew 2. Q. PEDIUS, the grandson of No. 1, was a
of the dictator C. Julius Caesar, being the grandson painter. [See below.]
of Julia, Caesar's eldest sister. This is the state- 3. PEDInaS POPLICOLA, a celebrated orator
ment of Suetonius (Caesar, 83), but Glandorp has mentioned by Horace (Serra. i. 10. 28), may have
conjectured (Onoez. p. 432), not without reason, been a son of No. 1.
that Pedius may have been the son of the dic- 4. PEDIus BLAESUS. [BLAESUS, p. 492, a.]
tator's sister, since we find him grown up and 5. CN. PEDIUS CASTUS, consul suffectus at the
discharging important duties in Caesar's lifetime. beginning of the reign of Vespasian, A. D. 71.
The name of Pedius first occurs in B. c. 57, when PE'DIUS, Q., a Roman painter in the latter
he was serving as legatus to his uncle in Gaul. part of the first century B. C. lie was the grand(Caes. B. G. ii. i.) In B. C. 55, Pedius became a son of that Q. Pedius who was the nephew of
candidate for the curule aedileship with Cn. Plan- Julius Caesar, and his co-heir with Augustus (see
cius and others, but he lost his election. (Cic. pro above, No. 1): but, as he was dumb from his
Plasc. 7, 22: respecting the interpretation of these birth, his kinsman, the orator Messala, had himn
passages, see Wunder, Proleyomnena, p. lxxxiii, &c. taught painting: this arrangement was approved
to his edition of Cicero's oration pro PlaCwio.) of by Augustus, and Pedius attained to considerable
On the breaking out of the civil war ill B. c. 49, excellence in the art, but he died while still a youth
Pedius naturally joined Caesar. During Caesar's (Plin. H. N. xxxv. 4. s. 7). Miiller places him at
campaign in Greece against Pompey, B. c. 48, B. C. 34, but this is too early a date. [P.S.]
Pedius remained in Italy, having been raised to PE'DIUS, SEXTUS, a Roman jurist, whose
the praetorship, and in the course of that year he writings were apparently known to Pomponius
defeated and slew Milo in the neighbourhood of (Dig. 4. tit. 3. s. I. ~ 4). His name Sextus apThurii. At the beginning of B. c. 45, we find pears in a passage of Paulus (Dig. 4. tit. 8. s. 32.
Pedius serving as legatus against the Pompeian ~ 20), and in other passages. Pedius was younger
party in Spain, and on his return to Rome with than Ofilius [OFILIUs], or at least a contemporary
Caesar in the autumn of the year, he was allowed (Dig. 14. tit. 1. s. 1. ~ 9): and the same remark apthe honour of a triumph with the title of pro- plies to Sabinus (Dig. 50. tit. 6. s. 13. ~ 1), where
consul. (Fasti Capit.) In Caesar's will Pedius Massurius Sabinus is meant. He is most frequently
was named one of his heirs along with his two cited by Paulus and Ulpian. He is also cited by
other great-nephews, C. Octavius and L. Pinarius, Julian (Dig. 3. tit. 5. s. 6. ~ 9). WTe may, thereOctavius obtaining three-fourths of the property, fore, conclude that he lived before the time of
and the remaining fourth being divided between Hadrian. He wrote Libri ad Edictualm, of which
Pinarius aIld Pedius, who resigned his share of the the twenty-fifth is quoted by Paulus (Dig. 37. tit.
inheritance to Octavius. After the fall of the 1. s. 6. ~ 2). He also wrote Libri dle Slipulationiconsuls, Hirtius and Pansa, at the battle of Mutina bus (12. tit. 1. s. 6). The passages which are cited
in the mouth of April, B. c. 43, Octavius marched from him show that he had a trite perception of the
to Rome at the head of an army [AUGUsrvs, right method of legal interpretation; for instance,
1)P 425, b.), and in the month of August he was lie says, in a passage quoted by Paulus, "it is best