He promulgated the lex Pedia, which established courts in which Caesar's killers and allies thereof were convicted in absentia.
[6] In that same year, he commanded a legion and successfully quelled an anti-Caesarean uprising at Compsa, resulting in the deaths of both Marcus Caelius Rufus and Titus Annius Milo,[citation needed] who had been leading the ill-fated revolt.
[9] After the ordinary consuls of that year, Gaius Vibius Pansa Caetronianus and Aulus Hirtius, were both killed while fighting against Antony during the battle of Mutina, Octavian – the only surviving commander of senatorial forces – marched on the city at the head of his army to demand his elevation as consul.
[10] With Pedius as Octavian's colleague, on 19 August 43 BC, the two assumed office as suffect consuls after an irregularly convoked election.
[15] After the passage of the lex Pedia, he also brought legislation to rescind the declaration of Mark Antony and Marcus Aemilius Lepidus as public enemies.
When news reached Rome of the new political alliance and of the lists of people whom the triumvirs had marked for death, Pedius became very concerned.
[citation needed] Pliny the Elder in his Naturalis Historia mentions that Quintus Pedius had a grandson, also named Quintus Pedius, who was mute and supposedly deaf;[page needed] this grandson may be the earliest example of a deaf individual named in written history.