Paccius

This name is frequently written Pactlus, but in inscriptions we only find Paccius, and the derivative Pacciauus also points to Paccius as the correct orthography. It appears that the name was originally not Roman. [See Nos. 1 and 2.]

1. Ovius Paccius, a priest in the Samnite army,B. C. 293 (Liv. 10.38).

2. Paccius and Vibius, two brothers, the noblest among the Bruttii, came to the consul Q. Fabius in B. C. 209 to obtain pardon from the Romans (Liv. 27.15).

3. M. Paccius, a friend of Atticus, B. C. 54 (Cic. ad Att. 4.16).

4. Paccius Africanus, expelled from the senate after the death of Vitellius, A. D. 70 (Tac. list. 4.41).

5. Paccius Orfitus. [Orfitus, No. 3.]

(Πάκκιος), or Pa'ccius Antiochus (Πάκκιος Ἀντίοχος), a physician about the beginning of the Christian era, who was a pupil of Philonides of Catana, and lived probably at Rome. He made a large fortune by the sale of a certain medicine of his own invention, which was much employed, and the composition of which he kept a profound secret. At his death he left his prescription as a legacy to the Emperor Tiberius, who, in order to give it as wide a circulation as possible, ordered a copy of it to be placed in all the public libraries. (Scribon. Larg. De Compos Medicam. 23.97. p. 209; Marcell. Empir. De Medicam. 100.20. p. 324.) Some of his medical formulae are quoted by Galen (De Compos. Medcamt. sec. Loc. 4.4, 8, 9.4, vol. xii. pp. 715, 751, 760, 772, 782, 13.284; De Compos. Medicam. sec. Gen. 7.7, vol. xiii. p. 984), Scribonius Lar (l.c., and 40.156. p. 218), Atius (2.3.109, 111, pp. 354, 359), and Marcellus Empiricus (l.c.) [W.A.G]