“Quintus Pedius Publicola”的意思、由来-开放百科全书

词条

Quintus Pedius Publicola

释义

Notes
Sources

Quintus Pedius Publicola or Poplicola (flourished first century BC) was a Roman who came from a Roman senatorial family. Publicola was the son of consul Quintus Pedius and noblewoman Valeria. The elder Pedius was nephew or great nephew of dictator Gaius Julius Caesar. Valeria was one of the sisters to the Roman Senator Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus, thus was a daughter of Marcus Valerius Messalla Niger and his wife, Polla.^[1]

His cognomen Publicola or Poplicola means in Latin ‘friend of the people‘. His mother named him this cognomen in honor of her step father consul Lucius Gellius Publicola and also the name Publicola is a cognomen that appears in Valeria’s paternal ancestry, the gens Valeria. Valeria has various paternal ancestors with the cognomen Publicola.

Very little is known on Publicola’s life. Publicola was quaestor in 41 BC^[2] and served as a Roman senator. Publicola is remembered from his political career as a distinguished orator. The great Roman poet and satirist Horace, celebrates Publicola’s oratory and mentions Publicola in his writings (Serm.i. 10.28) within the company of his maternal uncle Corvinus. Publicola had a son named Quintus Pedius, who was mute, and became a painter on the advice of Corvinus.

Notes

1. ^Syme, R., Augustan Aristocracy, pages 20 and 206.
2. ^An inscription of this year (CIL 6, 358) names a Quintus Pedius as urban quaestor: P(ublio) Servilio L(ucio) Antonio co(n)s(ulibus) / a(nte) d(iem) IIII K(alendas) Sext(iles) / locavit Q(uintus) Pedius q(uaestor) urb(anus) / murum Iunoni Lucinae / HS CCCLXXX(milibus) / eidemque probavit.

Sources

[https://books.google.com/books?id=fj8oQ4lzteIC&pg=PA206&lpg=PA206&dq=pedius+poplicola&source=web&ots=ul8EMArTip&sig=u78k_NqYrIZg7llbhncmC_TNAek#PPA501,M1 Ronald Syme, The Augustean Aristocracy, Oxford University Press, Oxford 1989, (Clarendon Paperbaks)]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20071221003719/http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/2497.html William Smith, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, C. Little and J. Brown, Boston (print: London) 1870, (University of Michigan Library, Ann Arbor (Michigan) 2005), vol. 3, p. 164]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20060512000617/http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/2933.html William Smith, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, C. Little and J. Brown, Boston (print: London) 1870, (University of Michigan Library, Ann Arbor (Michigan) 2005), vol. 3, p. 600]

随便看

开放百科全书收录14589846条英语、德语、日语等多语种百科知识，基本涵盖了大多数领域的百科知识，是一部内容自由、开放的电子版国际百科全书。