A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. By various writers. Ed. by William Smith. Illustrated by numerous engravings on wood.

76 PACCIUS. PACHES.
at Rome. He made a large fortune by the sale of
a certain medicine of his own invention, which was
P. much employed, and the composition of which he
kept a profound secret. At his death he left his
PACA'RIUS, DE'CIMUS, procurator of Cor- prescription as a legacy to the Emperor Tiberius,
sica in A. D. 69, wished to send assistance to Vi- who, in order to give it as wide a circulation as
tellius, but was murdered by the inhabitants. possible, ordered a copy of it to be placed in all
(Tac. Hist. ii. 16.) the public libraries. (Scribon. Larg. De Compos.
PACATIA'NUS, a Roman emperor, known to Mloedicam. c. 23. ~ 97. p. 209; Marcell. Empir.
us only from coins, a specimen of which is annexed. De Medicare. c. 20. p. 324.) Some of his medical
From the number of coins of this emperor found in formulae are quoted by Galen (De CoapTos. MiediAhstria, Eckhel thinks that the brief reign of Pa- camn. sec. Loc. iv. 4, 8, ix. 4, vol. xii. pp. 715, 751,
catianus was probably in Pannonia or Moesia. The 760, 772, 782, xiii. 284; De Com)pos. Miledicanm.
frll name of Pacatianus was TI. CL. MAR. PACA- sec. Gen. vii. 7, vol. xiii. p. 98-1), Scribonius Largus
TIANUS. Mar. is variously interpreted, some (I. c., and c. 40. ~ 156. p. 218), Atius (ii. 3. ~ 109,
mnaking it Marius, some llarcius, and others Ma- 111, pp. 354, 359), and Marcellus Empiricus
rinus. Eckhel adopts the last, and assigns the (I. c.). [W. A. G.]
coins to the times of Philippus and Decius (Eckhel, PACENSIS, AEMI'LIUS, was tribune of the
vol. vii. p. 338). There was a Pacatianus, consul city cohorts (urbanae cohornes) at the death of Nero,
A. D. 332, in the reign of Constantine (Fasti). but was deprived of this office by Galba. He subsequently joined Otho, who restored to him his
tribunate, was chosen one of the generals of Otho's
- 4/g 14& m t army, and perished fighting in the Capitol against
the Vitellian troops, A. D. 69. (Tac. Hislt. i. 20, 87,
ii. 12, iii. 73.)
PACHES (IldX/s). An Athenian general, the
AllECHV son of a man named Epicurus (or, according to
Diod. xii. 55, Epiclerus). In the autumn of B. C.
428 Paches was sent out at the head of 1000
hoplites to reinforce the troops which, on the
COIN OF TIE EMPEROR PACATIANUS. revolt of Mytilene, had been sent out under
-Cleippides, and had entrenched themselves in two
PACA'TUS, CLAU'DIUS, although a centu- forts near the city, while the fleet blockaded the
rion, was restored to his master by Domitian, when harbour. On the arrival of Paches a wall was
he was proved to be his slave. (Dion Cass. lxvii. carried round the city on the land side, with forts
13.) at the strongest points. In the summer of B. c.
PACAtTUS, DREPA'NIUS. [DREPANIUS.] 427 the Spartans sent a fleet under the command
PACA'TUS, MINU'CIUS. [IRENAEUS, of Alcidas for the relief of Mytilene; but Alcidas
No. 3.] delayed so much on his voyage that the MytiPACCIA'NUS. 1. Was sent by Sulla into lenaeans, and even Salaethus, whom the Spartans
]Mauritania to help Ascalis, whom Sertorius was had sent before their fleet, gave up all hopes of its
attacking, but he was defeated and slain by Serto- arrival. By the advice of Salaethus the comrins. (Plut. Sert. 9.) monalty of the Mytilenaeans were entrusted with
2. C., a Roman prisoner taken on the defeat of the arms of the regular infantry; but they forthCrassus by the Parthians. As he bore the greatest with rose against the aristocratical party, and the
resemblance to Crassus among the prisoners, the latter, fearing a capitulation on the part of the
Parthians put on him a female dress, and paraded commonalty, surrendered the city to Paches, leavhiai in mockery ofthe Romangeneral. (Plut. Crass. ing the decision of their fate entirely to the
32.) Athenians. At this juncture Alcidas arrived at
PA'CCIUS. This name is frequently written Embaton; but, instead of attacking the Athenians,
I'actius, but in inscriptions we only finld Paccius, sailed southwards along the coast of Ionia. Paches,
and the derivative Paccicanus also points to Paccius hearing from many quarters of the approach of the
as the correct orthography. It appears that the Peloponnesian fleet, set out in pursuit of it; but,
name was originally not Roman. [See Nos. 1 not coming up with it, returned at leisure along
and 2.] the coast of Ionia. In his course he touched at
1. OVIUns PAccIus, a priest in the Sarnnite Notium. Here his assistance was called in by
army, B. c. 293 (Liv. x. 38). the democratical party, who were being hard
2. PAccIus and VIBIUS, two brothers, the pressed by their political opponents, who were
noblest among the Bruttii, came to the consul Q. supported by the ruling party among the ColoFabius in B. c. 209 to obtain pardon from the Ro- phonians, and by a body of mercenaries, commails (Liv. xxvii. 15). manded by an Arcadian named Hippias, borrowed
3. M. PAccIus, a friend of Atticus, B.C. 54 from the satrap Pissuthnes. Paches invited
(Cic. ad Att. iv. 16). Hippias to a parley; but when he came he imme4. PAccIus AFRIcANus, expelled from the senate diately arrested him, and forthwith attacked the
after the death of Vitellius, A. D. 70 (Tac. Hist. garrison, which was overpowered and cut to pieces.
iv. 41). Hippias, with whom Paches had made a solemn
5. PACCIUS ORFITUS. [ORFITUS, No. 3.1 engagement, that, if the parley did not lead to an
PA'CCIUS (ndtCKKio), or PACCIUS ANTIO- agreement, he should be reconducted in safety into
CHUS (IIdoCKKOS'ArVToXOS), a physician about the town, was taken by Paches within the walls,
the beginning of the Christian era, who was a and then barbarously put to death by being shot
pupil of Philonides of Catana, and lived probably with arrows; Paches urging that he had fulfilled