Porcia (gens)
The Porcier (Latin gens Porcia or Porcii ) was a Roman Plebejerfamilie. She came from Tusculum. The name Porcus (German pig) to go back to the fact that the pig one of the sources of income was gens. Since the second half of the 3rd century BC, they made numerous magistrates, but still no consul, and developed as one of the most influential families. There were many branches of Porcier, the most important were the Licini, Catones and Lacae. With Marcus Porcius Cato the Elder, the family put in 195 BC, the first consul in the year 184 BC, Lucius Porcius Licinius, the second line was consul.
The most frequently used praenomen of Lucius and Marcus were Porcier.
Well-known bearers of the name
- Gaius Porcius Cato (consul 114 BC), politicians
- Lucius Porcius Cato († 89 BC), politicians
- Lucius Porcius Licinius ( praetor ), Roman praetor 207 BC
- Lucius Porcius Licinius (consul 184 BC ), Roman consul
- Lucius Porcius Licinius ( duumvir ), Roman duumvir 181 BC
- Lucius Porcius Licinius ( triumvir monetalis ), testified as a Roman triumvir monetalis 92 BC
- Marcus Porcius († ~ 50 BC), an official in Pompeii
- Marcus Porcius Cato the Elder ( 234 BC -149 BC), Roman general, historian, writer and statesman
- Marcus Porcius Cato Licinianus († 152 BC ), Roman officer and lawyer
- Marcus Porcius Cato the Elder Salonianus (* 154 BC ), Roman praetor
- Marcus Porcius Cato (consul 118 BC) († 118 BC ), Roman consul
- Marcus Porcius Cato the Younger Salonianus, 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 military commander
- Marcus Porcius Cato ( Suffektkonsul ), Roman politician, Suffektkonsul 36 AD
- Marcus Porcius Laeca, co-conspirators of Catiline
- Porcia ( sister of Cato )
- Porcia ( Cato's daughter ) ( † 42 BC), wife of Brutus
- Publius Porcius Laeca, tribune of 199 BC, praetor 195 BC