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- Flourished:
- 1st century ad
- Flourished:
- c.1 - c.25
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Albinovanus Pedo
Roman poet
Albinovanus Pedo (flourished 1st century ad) was a Roman poet who wrote a Theseid, referred to by his friend the poet Ovid (Epistles from Pontus); epigrams that are commended by the Latin poet Martial; and an epic poem on the military exploits of the Roman general Germanicus Caesar, the emperor Tiberiusā adopted son, under whom Pedo probably served. This epic may have been used as a source by the Roman historian Tacitus. All that remains of Pedoās works is a fragment, preserved in the Suasoriae of Seneca the Elder, that describes in a highly melodramatic and rhetorical style the voyage of Germanicus (ad 16) through the Ems River to the Northern Ocean (i.e., the North Sea).
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