person
Sextus Peducaeus
also: Sex. Peducaeo, Sex. Peducaeum, Sex. Peducaei, census under Sextus Peducaeus
Sex. Peducaeus, praetor 76 BC, governor of Sicily 76-75 (in which year Cicero served under him as quaestor at Lilybaeum, the start of his Sicilian connection). A man of conspicuous integrity throughout the speeches (Verr. 2.1.18; 2.4.142; 2.5.55) and the father of Cicero's friend the younger Sex. Peducaeus of the correspondence.