Pacorus
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Pacorum Proper-name noun: masculine genitive plural, Proper-name noun: masculine accusative singular of Pacorus
- A son of Orodes, king of Parthia, the conqueror of Crassus; he was afterwards conquered by Ventidius Bassus, the legate of Antony, Cic. Att. 5, 18, 1; id. Fam. 15, 1, 2; Just. 42, 4, 6; 16.—
- II Pacorus II., a king of the Parthians in the time of Domitian, Plin. Ep. 10, 16, 2; Mart. 9, 36, 3.—
- III A Roman surname, Inscr. Grut. 39, 4; 102, 1.
(Πάκορος), a conmmon Parthian name.
1. The son of Orodes I. (Arsaces XIV.), king of Parthia. His history is given under ARSACES XIV., p. 356.
2. A contemporary of Pacorus, the son of Orodes [No. I], was one of the royal cup-bearers. After Pacorus, the son of Orodes, had conquered Saxa, Antony's quaestor (B. C. 40), and had overrun a great part of Syria, Antigonus, the son of Aristobolus, applied to hmt for help to restore him to the Jewish throne. This request was immediately complied with; and Pacorus, the cup-bearer, was sent with a large force against Jerusalem. The city surrendered: Hyrcanus and Phasael were taken prisoners, and Herod fled to Rome. (J. AJ 14.13. B. Jad. 1.13; comp Hyrcanus. p. 544. b.) Dio Cassius, who makes no mention of Pacorns, the cup-bearer, attributes this expedition to the soil of Orodes (48.26); and Tacitus in like manner speaks of Jerusalem having been taken by the king Pacorus (Hist. 5.9); but the authority of Josephus on all matters relating to Jewish history is superior to that of these historians.
3. The son of Vonones II., king of Parthia, obtained the kingdom of Media on the death of his father, while his brother Vologeses I. succeeded to the Parthian throne. [Arsaces XXIII. p. 358b.]
4. King of Parthia, succeeded his father Vologeses I. [ARSACES XXIV.]
5. AURELIUS PACORUS, a king of the Greater Armenia, was a contemporary of the Antonines, and is mentioned in a Greek inscription published by Gruter (p. 1091, No. 10). It appears by this inscription that Pacorus had purchased a burial-place for himself and his brother Aurelius Meridates, and that both brothers resided at Rome, where one of them died. Niebuhr supposes that a passage in Fronto has reference to this Pacorus, in which a Pacorus is said to have been deprived of his kingdom by L. Verus (Fronto, p. 70, ed. Niebuhr), and he further concludes from the name Aurelius that he was a client of the imperial family and a Roman citizen. He may be the same as the Pacorus who was placed as king over the Lazi, a people on the Caspian sea, by Anton Pius (Capitol. Anton. Pius, 9)
(1) A son of Orodes I., king of Parthia. His history is given under Arsaces XIV.
(2) A king of Parthia. See Arsaces XXIV.