Porcii
Porcius, feminine Porcia, masculine plural Porcii, was the name (nomen) of the gens Porcia, who apparently originated in Tusculum.[1]
During the Roman Republic, the three branches of the gens were distinguished by the cognomina Laeca, Licinus, and Cato. The most illustrious were the Catones, especially the men known in the modern era as Cato the Elder and Cato the Younger.
During the Imperial era, the cognomina Festus, Latro, and Septimus are also found as branches of the Porcii.
Porcii of the Republic
Catones
- Marcus Porcius Cato (Cato the Elder) - statesman, including consul (195 BC), proposed Lex Porcia (II).
- Marcus Porcius Cato Licinianus - son of Cato the Elder by first wife, Licinia; soldier and jurist.
- Marcus Porcius Cato - son of M. Porcius Cato Licinianus, consul 118 BC, died in Africa in the same year.
- Gaius Porcius Cato - son of Marcus Porcius Cato Licinianus, father of Cato the Younger, and consul in 114 BC.
- Marcus Porcius Cato Salonianus - son of Cato the Elder by second wife, Salonia; praetor.
- Marcus Porcius Cato Uticensis (Cato the Younger) - politician and statesman, great grandson of Cato the Elder.
- Marcus Porcius Cato (II) - son of Cato the Younger; supporter of Brutus and Cassius, and one of Julius Caesar's assassins.
- Lucius Porcius Cato, son of M. Porcius Cato Salonianus, consul 89 BC, killed during the Social War (91–88 BC).
Laecae
- Publius Porcius Laeca (I) - tribune and proposer of Lex Porcia (I) in 199 BC, tresviri epulones in 196 BC.
- Marcus Porcius Laeca - moneyer (tresviri monetalis) in 125 BC.
- Publius Porcius Laeca (II) - tresviri monetalis in 110-109 BC, apparently tribunus plebis in 90s BC.
Licini
Porcii of the Empire
References
- ^ Tacitus, Annals XI.24
- ^ Gian Biagio Conte, Latin Literature: A History (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994, originally published 1987 in Italian), p. 139.