ALBINOVANUS PEDO, Roman poet, flourished during the Augustan age. He wrote a Theseis, referred to in a letter from his friend Ovid (Ex Ponto, iv. 1o), epigrams which are commended by Martial (ii. 77, v. 5) and an epic poem (cf. Quintilian x. i. 9o) on the exploits of Germanicus under whom he probably served (Tac. Ann., i. 6o). This may have been used as a source by Tacitus. All that remains of his works is a beautiful fragment, preserved in the Suasoriae (i. 15) of Seneca, describing the voyage of Germanicus (A.D. 16) through the river Ems to the Northern Ocean.
Three elegies were formerly attributed to Pedo by Scaliger; two on the death of Maecenas (In Obitum Maecenatis and De Verbis Maecenatis moribundi), and one addressed to Livia (Con solatio ad Liviarn de Morte Drusi or Epicedion Drusi, usually printed with Ovid's works) ; but it is now generally agreed that they are not by Pedo. The Consolatio has been put down as the work of a i 5th century Italian imitator, there being no mss. and no trace of the poem before the publication of the editio princeps of Ovid in 1471. There is an English verse translation of the elegies by Plumptre (19o7) .
See Haupt, Opuscula, i. (1875) ; Bahrens, Poetae Latini Minores (1879) and Fragmenta Poetarum Latinorum (1886) ; Haube, Beitrag zur Kenntnis des Albinovanus Pedo (188o) .