A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology

Smith, William

A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. William Smith, LLD, ed. 1890

1. SEX.PEDUCAEUS, tribune of the plebs, B. C. 113, brought forward a bill appointing L. Cassius Longinus as a special commissioner to investigate the charge of incest against the Vestal virgins Licinia and Marcia, whom the college of pontiffs had acquitted. (Cic. de Nat. Deor. 3.30; Ascon. in Milon. p. 76, ed. Orelli.) For a full account of this transaction, see LICINIA, No. 2.