Porcier

The Porcians (Latin gens Porcia or Porcii ) were a Roman plebeian family . She came from Tusculum . The name Porcus (dt. Pig ) goes back to the fact that pig breeding was one of the gens' sources of income . Since the second half of the 3rd century BC They provided numerous magistrates , but not yet a consul, and thus developed into one of the most influential families.

There were many branches of the Porcians, the most important being the Licini , Catones, and Lacae . With Marcus Porcius Cato the Elder , the family presented in 195 BC. The first consul , in 184 BC. With Lucius Porcius Licinus the second line became consular.

The most used prenomen of the Porcians were Lucius and Marcus.

Well-known namesake

Gaius Porcius Cato (Consul 114 BC) , politician
Lucius Porcius Cato († 89 BC), politician
Lucius Porcius Crescens , Roman officer (imperial era)
Lucius Porcius Licinus (Praetor) , Roman Praetor 207 BC. Chr.
Lucius Porcius Licinus (Consul 184 BC) , Roman Consul
Lucius Porcius Licinus (Duumvir) , Roman Duumvir 181 BC Chr.
Lucius Porcius Licinus (Triumvir monetalis) , as Roman Triumvir monetalis 92 BC. Chr. Attested
Marcus Porcius († ~ 50 BC), official in Pompeii
Marcus Porcius Cato the Elder , also known as Marcus Porcius Cato Censorius (234 BC – 149 BC), Roman general, historian, writer and statesman
Marcus Porcius Cato Licinianus († 152 BC), Roman officer and lawyer
Marcus Porcius Cato Salonianus the Elder (* 154 BC), Roman praetor
Marcus Porcius Cato (consul 118 BC) († 118 BC), Roman consul
Marcus Porcius Cato Salonianus the Younger , Roman praetor
Marcus Porcius Cato the Younger (95 BC – 46 BC), also known as Cato Uticensis , Roman general and statesman
Marcus Porcius Cato (son of Cato Uticensis) († 42 BC), Roman politician and general
Marcus Porcius Cato (suffect consul) , Roman politician, suffect consul 36 AD.
Marcus Porcius Laeca , co-conspirator of Catiline
Marcus Porcius Marcellus , Roman officer (imperial era)
Porcia (Sister Catos)
Porcia (daughter of Catos) († 42 BC), wife of Brutus
Publius Porcius Laeca , Tribune of the People 199 BC BC, praetor 195 BC Chr.
Quintus Porcius Potitus , Roman officer (imperial era)

Individual evidence

↑ For a complete list of the members of the gens Porcia who held offices during the Roman Republic, see T. Robert S. Broughton : The Magistrates Of The Roman Republic. Vol. 2: 99 BC - 31 BC (= Philological Monographs. Ed. By the American Philological Association. Volume 15, Part 2). Case Western Reserve University Press, Cleveland (Ohio) 1952. Unchanged reprint 1968, pp. 606 f.

literature

Franz Miltner : Porcius. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume XXII, 1, Stuttgart 1953, Col. 102.

[1] For a complete list of the members of the gens Porcia who held offices during the Roman Republic, see T. Robert S. Broughton : The Magistrates Of The Roman Republic. Vol. 2: 99 BC - 31 BC (= Philological Monographs. Ed. By the American Philological Association. Volume 15, Part 2). Case Western Reserve University Press, Cleveland (Ohio) 1952. Unchanged reprint 1968, pp. 606 f.