- Pacurius
Pacurius was a prince of the Iberian royal family and a military commander in the Roman service in
Italy . His name is presumably aLatinized rendition of the Georgian Bakuri.Pacurius was a son of
Peranius , also a general under the emperorJustinian I . During theGothic War (535–554) , he was sent, together with Sergius, to reinforceBelisarius inCalabria in 547. In 552, he commanded the Roman troops inHydruntum and negotiated the surrender of Tarentum and Acherontia and their Gothic commandants Ragnaris and Moras. When Ragnaris attempted to outplay the Romans and took fifty of their soldiers hostage, Pacurius marched against him and won a decisive victory. [Martindale, John Robert (1992), "The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire", p. 959.Cambridge University Press , ISBN 0521072336.]See also
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