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disappointment, Astyochus turned a deaf ear to the forth with, at the instigation of his colleague, pro-
application which the Chians made for assistance posed a law, known by the name of the Ler 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 interdictio. Pedius
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 laid 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. Apophth. 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 Octa-
their 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
He himself meantime made a sudden names of those who were doomed had not trans.
attack 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 an open insurrection ; and on the fol-
ning 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 (Ileðiás), 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. u. 22;
name. (Apollod. iii. 14. & 5; Plut. Themist. 14 ; Auctor, B. Hisp. 2 ; Suet. Caes. 83 ; Dion Cass.
Steph. By z. s. v. )
(L. S. ) xliii. 31, 42, xlvi. 46, 52; Appian, B. C. i. 22,
PEDIA'SIMUS, JOANNES. (JOANNES, 94, 96, iv. 6 ; Plin. H. N. xxxv. 4. 5. 7 ; Vell.
No. 61. )
Pat. ïi. 69 ; Suet. Ner. 3, Galb. 3. )
PE'DIUS. 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. Pepius PopLICOLA, a celebrated orator
ment of Suetonius (Caesar, 83), but Glandorp has mentioned by Horace (Serm. i. 10. 28), may have
conjectured (Onom. 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. Pepius 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 PEDIUS, Q. , a Roman painter in the latter
he was serving as legatus to his uncle in Gaul. part of the first century B. C. He was the grand-
(Caes. B. G. ii. 1. ) 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. l): but, as he was dumb from his
Planc. 7, 22: respecting the interpretation of these birth, his kinsman, the orator Messala, had him
passages, see Wunder, Prolegomena, p. lxxxiii, &c. taught painting: this arrangement was approved
to his edition of Cicero's oration pro Plancio. ) of by Augustus, and Pedius attained to considerable
On the breaking out of the civil war in 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. 87). Müller 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, à 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. &. I. $ 4). His name Sextus ap-
Thurii. 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 (ОFilius), 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 ap-
the 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). We may, there-
Octavius 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 Edictum, of which
Pinarius and 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 de stipulationi.
consuls, Hirtius and Pansa, at the battle of Mutina bus (12. tit. 1. 6. 6).
The passages which are cited
in the month of April, B. C. 43, Octavius marched from him show that he had a true perception of the
to Rome at the head of an army (Augustus, right method of legal interpretation ; for instance,
p. 425, b. ), and in the month of August he was he says, in a passage quoted by Paulus, “it is best


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not to scrutinize the proper signification of words, frequently mentions bim in his correspondence in
but mainly what the testator lias intended to de terms of the greatest affection. During Cicero's
clare ; in the next place, what is the opinion of absence in Cilicia Peducaeus was accused and
those who live in each district” (De Instructo vel acquitted, but of the nature of the accusation we
Instrumento Legato, Dig. 33. tit. 7. a 18. $ 3). In are not informed. (Caelius, ad Fam. viii. 14. ) On
another passage quoted by Ulpian (Dig. 1. tit. 3. B. the breaking out of the civil war between Caesar
13), Pedius o oserves that when one or two things and Pompey, Peducaeus sided with the former, by
are introduced by a lex, it is a good ground for whom he was appointed in B. c. 48 to the govern-
supplying the rest which tends to the same useful ment of Sardinia In B. c. 39, Peducaeus was
purpose, by interpretation, or at least by jurisdictio. ” propraetor in Spain, and this is the last time that
(Grotius, Vitue Jurisconsultorum ; Zimmern, Ge- his name is mentioned. (Cic. ad Att. vii. 13, a. ,
schichte des Röm. Privatrechts, p. 333 ; the passages 14, 17, ix. 7, 10, x. 1, xiii. 1, xv. 13, xvi. 11,
of the Digest in which Sextus Pedius is cited are 15 ; Appinn, B. C. ii. 48, v. 51. )
collected by Wieling, Jurisprudentia Restituta, p. 4. L. PEDUCAEUS, a Roman eques, was one of
335. )
(G. L.
the judices at the trial of L. Flaccus, whom Cicero
PEDO ALBINOVANUS. (ALBINOVANUS. ) defended B. c. 59. (Cic. pro Flacc. 28. )
PEDO, M. JUVE'NTIUS, a judex spoken of 5. T. PeducaEUS, interceded with the judices
with praise by Cicero in his oration for Cluentius on behalf of M. Scaurus, B. C. 54. (Ascon, in
(c. 38).
Scaur. p. 29, ed. Orelli. )
PEDO, M. VERGILIA'NUS, consul A. D. 6. C. PEDUCAEUS, was a legate of the consul,
115 with L. Vipstanus Messalla.
C. Vibius Pansa, and was killed at the battle of
PEDUCAEA'NUS, C. CU'RTIUS, praetor Mutina, B. C. 43. (Cic. ad Fam. x. 33. )
B. C. 50, to whom one of Cicero's letters is ad- 7. M. PEDUCAEUS PRISCINUS, consul A. D. 110
dressed (ad Fam. xiii. 59). He was probably a with Ser. Salvidienus Orfitus.
son of Sex. Peducaeus, who was propraetor in 8. M. PEDUCAEUS STOLGA PRISCINUS, consul
Sicily B. c. 76—75 [PEDUCABUS, No. 2], and was A. D. 141, with T. Hoenius Severus.
adopted by C. Curtius. In one of Cicero's PEGANES, GEORGIUS [GEORGIUS, No
speeches after his return from banishment, he 18, p. 247, a. )
speaks of M'. Curtius or Curius, as some editions PEʻGASIS (royaois), i. e. descended from
have the name, to whose father be bad been Pegasus or originating by him ; hence it is ap-
quaestor (post Red. in Senat. 8). The latter per- plied to the well Hippocrene, which was called
son would seem to be the same as the praetor, and forth by the hoof of Pegasus (Mosch. iii. 78 ; Ov.
the praenomen is probably wrong in one of the pas- Trist. iii
. 7. 15). The Muses themselves also are
Bages quoted above.
sometimes called Pegasides, as well as other nymphs
PEDUCAEUS, a Roman name, which first of wells and brooks. (Virg. Catal. 71. 2 ; Ov. He-
occurs in the last century of the republic, is also roid. xv. 27 ; Propert. iii. 1. 19 ; Quint. Smyrn. iii.
written Paeduceus ; but it appears from inscriptions 301 ; comp. Heyne, ad Apollod. p. 301. ) (L. S. )
that Peducaeus is the correct form.
PEYGASUS (Nńyasos). 1. A priest of Eleu-
1. Sex. PEDUCAEUS, tribune of the plebs, B. c. therae, who was believed to have introduced the
113, brought forward a bill appointing L. Cassius worship of Dionysus at Athens. (Paus. i. 2. $ 4. )
Longinus as a special commissioner to investigate 2. The famous winged horse, whose origin is thus
the charge of incest against the Vestal virgins Li-related. When Perseus struck off the head of Me-
cinia and Marcia, whom the college of pontiffs had dusa, with whom Poseidon had had intercourse in
acquitted. (Cic. de Nat. Deor. iii. 30 ; Ascon, in the form of a horse or a bird, there sprang forth from
Milon. p. 76, ed. Orelli. ) For a full account of her Chrysaor and the horse Pegasus. The latter
this transaction, see LICINIA, No. 2.
obtained the name Pegasus because he was believed
2. Sex. PEDUCAEUS, was propraetor in Sicily to have made his appearance near the sources (**-
during B. c. 76 and 75, in the latter of which years yai) of Oceanus. Pegasus rose up to the seats of
Cicero served under him as quaestor. His govern- the immortals, and afterwards lived in the palace
ment of Sicily gained him the love of the pro- of Zeus, for whom he carried thunder and lightning
vincials, and Cicero in his orations against Verres (Hes. Theog. 281, &c. ; Apollod. ii. 3. $ 2, 4. 82;
constantly speaks of bis justice and integrity, Schol. ad Aristoph. Pac. 722 ; comp. Ov.