Paccia gens

The gens Paccia, occasionally written Pactia, was a minor plebeian family at ancient Rome. Only a few members of this gens achieved distinction in the Roman state, of whom the most illustrious was Gaius Paccius Africanus, consul in AD 67.[1]

Origin

The nomen Paccius is a patronymic surname, derived from an Oscan praenomen, found as Paccius or Paquius, frequently found among the Samnites.[2] The Roman Paccii would therefore seem to have been of Samnite, or at least Oscan descent. Because the praenomen and the gentile name shared the same form, it is difficult to determine in some cases whether the name was the bearer's praenomen or nomen.[1]

Members

This list includes abbreviated praenomina. For an explanation of this practice, see filiation.

See also

References

  1. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. III, p. 76 ("Paccius").
  2. Chase, p. 139.
  3. Cicero, Epistulae ad Atticum, iv. 16.
  4. Scribonius Largus, De Compositione Medicamentorum, c. 23. § 97, p. 209, c. 40. § 156, p. 218.
  5. Galen, De Comp. Med. Sec. Loc., iv. 4, 8, ix. 4; vol. xii. pp. 715, 751, 760, 772, 782, xiii. 284; De Comp. Med. Sec. Gen., vii. 7, vol. xiii. p. 984.
  6. Marcellus Empiricus, De Medicamentis, c. 20, p. 324.
  7. Aëtius, ii. 3. § 109, 111, pp. 354, 359.
  8. PIR, vol. III, p. 3.
  9. Tacitus, Annales, xiii. 36, xv. 12.
  10. Tacitus, Historiae, iv. 41.
  11. CIL IV, 1544.
  12. Gallivan, "Some Comments on the Fasti for the Reign of Nero", p. 304.
  13. CIL X, 8260.
  14. Eck and Pangerl, "Neue Diplome mit den Namen von Konsuln und Statthaltern", pp. 273–294.
  15. Aelius Spartianus, "The Life of Septimius Severus", 3.
  16. PIR, vol. III, p. 4.

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