Pacatianus

Pacatianus is a Roman usurper (born in? , died in 248).

Shortly after the celebrations of the thousandths birthday of the foundation of Rome, of the revolts burst in the East, and in Balkans. A warrant officer of the province of Messiah, Tibérius Claudius Marinus Pacatianus , takes to purple against the emperor Philippe the Arab and his brother very unpopular Priscus governor. He does not reign a long time, and is made kill before the arrival of the senator Trajan Dèce sent by the emperor. When the news of died of Pacatianus is known, this one is acclaimed emperor by his troops. The barbarians become again threatening for the empire, because during the disorders due to the usurpation of Pacatianus, nobody pays any more subsidies to them which were due for them.

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