Paccia

This name derives from the Italic (Oscan) “paccius / paquius”, of unknown meaning. 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) Paccius Antiochus, a physician who lived during the early part of the first century. 2) Paccius Orfitus, a centurion primus pilus in the army of Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo, during the reign of Nero. 3) Paccia Marciana, the first wife of Septimius Severus, died before her husband became emperor.