P A C 
Hifpan. ill .M ft rated with numerous learned notes. Dupin 
thus characterizes the writings of Pacian : “ His exhor¬ 
tations are lively and perfuafive; his thoughts well 
weighed; his proofs folid ; his manner of writing plea- 
lant; his ftyle elegant, and the periods fhort. In a word, 
thefe little trails may pafs for mailer-pieces in their kind; 
and the two exhortations, or difcourfes, may be looked 
upon as perfeft models of popular preaching.” 
Pacian’s foil, named Flavius Dexter, was the per- 
fon to whom Jerome infcribed his Catalogue, and at wbofe 
requeft it was drawn up. He tilled leveral high offices in 
the empire, and for fome time was prefeft of the prreto- 
rium. He had a place in Jerome’s catalogue, as an eccle- 
fiaftical writer; though it is not uriiverfally allowed that 
the work mentioned by that father is now extant. Fabri- 
cii Bibh Eeolef Cave's Hijl. Lit. vol. i. Lardner's Cred. 
p 3 rt ii. 
PACIF'EROUS, adj. [from the Lat. pax, pads, peace, 
and fern, to bring.] Producing peace. Cole. 
PACIF'IC, adj. Peace-making; mild; gentle; ap¬ 
pealing.—God now in his gracious pacifich manner comes 
to treat with them. Hammond on Fundamentals. 
Returning, in his bill 
An olive-leaf he brings, pacific lign ! Milton. 
PACIFIC O'CEAN, or South Sea, that vaft ocean 
which leparates Alia from America. It is called Pacific, 
from the moderate weather which the firft mariners who 
failed in it met with between the tropics; and it was 
called the South Sea, becaufe the Spaniards eroded the 
Ifthmus of Darien from north to fouth. It is properly 
the Weltern Ocean, with regard to America. 
This ocean fills the grandeft concavity of the globe, oc¬ 
cupying nearly half of its furface, from the eaflern (hores 
of New Holland to the weltern coaft of America ; and it is 
diverlified with feveral groups of iflands, which feem, as 
it were, the fummits of vaft mountains emerging from 
the waves. Separately conlidered, this immenfe conca¬ 
vity receives but few rivers; the chief being the Amur 
from Tartary, and the Hoan-ho and Kian-ku from China, 
while the principal American rivers run towards the eaft. 
This ocean, confidered as the boundary of the Ruffian 
empire, wafhes the fhores of the government of Irkutlk, 
from Tfchukotfkoy Nofs, or Cook’s Straits, to the fron¬ 
tiers of China; or, in other words, from the mouth of 
the river Aimakan, that is, from 65° to 45 0 N. lat. It 
is divided into two great parts. That lying eaftwards 
from Kamtlkatka, between Siberia and America, is emi¬ 
nently ftyled the Eufitern or the Pacific Ocean ; that on the 
weft fide from Kamtlkatka, between Siberia, the Chinefe 
Mongoley, and the Kurilly Iflands, is called the Sea of 
Okhotfk. From the different places it touches, it aflumes 
different names : thus, from the place where the river 
Anadyr falls into it, it is called the Sea of Anadyr; 
about Kamtlkatka, the Sea of Kamtfkatka ; and the bay 
between the diftrifts of Okhotfk and Kamtfkatka, is 
called the Sea of Okhotfk, the upper part of which is 
termed the Penjinfkian Sea, as it approaches the mouth 
of the river Penjina. 
PACIF'ICAL, adj. [ pacificus , Lat.] Mild ; gentle-; 
peace-making.—For what fin was I fent hither among fol- 
diers, being by my profeflion academical, and by my 
charge pacfical ? Sir H. Wotton, (Lett. 1615.) Rem. p. 439. 
PACIFICA'TION, f. [Fr. from pacify.~\ The aft of 
making peace.—He fent forthwith to the French king his 
chaplain, chufing him becaufe he was a churchman, as 
beft forting with an ambafly of pacification. Bacon's Hen. 
VII. —The aft of appeafing or pacifying.—A world was 
to be faved by a pacification of wrath, through the dignity 
of that facrifice which fhould be offered. Hooker. 
PACIFICA'TOR, f. Peace-maker. — We have feen 
England become the pacificator of the continent, and ri¬ 
val monarchs fue for our alliance. Warburton's Sermons. 
PACIFICA'TORY, adj. Tending to makepeace.— 
PAG 179 
All churches did maintain intercourfe and commerce 
with each other by formed, communicator}', pacificatory, 
commendatory, fynodical, epiftles. Barrow's Unity of the 
Church. 
PACIF'ICUS, in mythology, an epithet of Jupiter, 
fynonymous with Salamines among the Syrians, derived 
from the Hebrew “ Salman,” which generally fignines 
pacatns fait. 
PACIF'ICUS MAX'IMUS, a Latin poet, was born at 
Afcoli, of a noble family, in 1409 : the time of his death 
is not known ; but his poems were printed at Florence in 
1489, under the title of “ Heccateligiam, five Elegise. 
This edition is now very fcarce ; that of Parma, with his 
other works, in 1691, is purged of many licentious paf- 
fages that occur in the former. He mentions the venereal 
dileafe in his poems before the difeovery of the New World 
by Columbus. 
PAC'IFIER, J\ One who pacifies. Huloct. 
To PAC'IFY, v. a. [pacifier , Fr. pacifico, Lat.] To 
appeafe; to ftill refentment; to quiet an angry perfon ; 
to compofe any defire.—The Molt High is not pacified 
for fin by the multitude of facrifices. Ecclef. xxxiv. 19.— 
O villain ! to have wit at will upon all other occafions, 
and not one diverting fyllable now at a pinch to pacify 
our miftrefs. L' E/irange. 
Nor William’s pow’r nor Mary’s charms 
Could or repel or pacify his arms. Prior. 
PA'CING, f. The aft of moving flowly and eafify. 
PACINIS'CO, a town of Naples, in Lavora : eleven 
miles eaft-fouth-eaft of Sora. 
PA'CIO (Giulio), a diftinguiffted jurift and philofo- 
pher, was born at Vicenza in the year 1550. From an 
early age he was diftinguifhed for his proficiency ift let¬ 
ters ; and, being deftined for the ftudy of the law, he was 
fent to Padua, where he ftudied under the ableft mailers. 
On his return to Vicenza, his propenfity to enquiry led 
him to perufe the writings of the Reformers, for which 
he was accufed to the bilhop, who gave orders for hisap- 
prehenfion. He therefore took refuge at Geneva, where, 
being deftitute of other means of lupport, he opened a 
fchool for children. In 1578 he was chofen profeflor of 
jurifprudence in that city. In 1585 he was invited to a 
profeflbrlhip at Heidelberg; and on his acceptance of that 
office he delivered an oration, “ De Juris Civilis Difficul- 
tate ac Docendi Methodo,” which he afterwards printed, 
figning himfelf Beriga, from a country-houfe belonging 
to his family. He remained at Heidelberg till 1595, when 
he quitted it for Sedan, where the duke of Bouillon had 
eftablifhed an academy : in this he held the logical chair 
till the war broke out, which obliged him to return to 
Geneva. Soon after he was elefted principal of the col¬ 
lege of Nifmes: thence he removed to the profeflbrlhip of 
civil law at Montpellier, where he had as a domeftic pupil 
the celebrated Peirefc. It was the great objeft of the pu¬ 
pil to bring back his mailer to the Catholic faith; and 
for this purpofe he wifhed to fix him, with a large ftipend, 
at the univerfity of Aix ; but for many years the attempts 
for his converfion and change of abode were continued 
without efteft. At length, however, he rejefted a flat¬ 
tering invitation from the univerfity of Leyden, becaufe 
he had again become a Catholic. In 1616 he removed to 
Valence in Dauphine, where he occupied the chair of the 
celebrated Cujus, with a high falary. About the year 
1619, he publilhed a work concerning the dominion of 
the Adriatic Sea, on account of which he was honoured 
by the republic of Venice with the order of St. Mark; it 
alfo procured him a prefling invitation to a profeflbrlhip 
at Padua, which he accepted for a ftiort time; but, after 
this, in 1621, he returned to Valence, where he continued 
his profeflional labours till his death, in 1635. 
The works of this writer are numerous, and chiefly on 
legal or philofophical topics, in both of which fciences be 
was profoundly verled. He publilhed new and accurate 
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