Pedius
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The gens Pedius was a nomen (see Roman naming conventions) of Ancient Rome. They were of consular rank and various members included:
- Quintus Pedius - general, politician who was a great nephew of dictator Gaius Julius Caesar and a maternal cousin to first Roman Emperor Augustus
- Quintus Pedius Publicola - son to the above, who was a senator and an orator. He is mentioned in the writings of Roman poet Horace
- Quintus Pedius (deaf painter) - son to the above
- Pedius Blaesus - a Roman Senator that was expelled from the Roman Senate in 60, on the complaint from Cyrenaica that Blaesus robbed the temple of Asclepius and lied about corruption of the military levies. Blaesus was readmitted in the senate in 70
- Gnaeus Pedius Castus - suffect consul in 71, during the reign of Roman Emperor Vespasian
- Sextus Pedius - jurist