Porcia gens

The gens Porcia, rarely written Portia, was a plebeian family at Ancient Rome.

The first of the gens to achieve the consulship was Marcus Porcius Cato in 195 BC, and from then until imperial times, the Porcii regularly occupied the highest offices of the Roman state.

[3] It belongs to a class of gentilicia derived from the names of common animals and objects, such as Asinius, Ovinius, Caprarius, and Taurus.

The same man also bore the epithets of Sapiens, the wise, Orator, and most famously, Censorius, from his tenure as censor.

Licinianus was probably not used during its bearer's lifetime, as he was a grown man when his half-brother was born, and died when Salonianus was a small child.

Denarius of Marcus Porcius Laeca, 125 BC. The reverse picture Libertas in a chariot, holding a pileus , the symbol of freedom, a reference to the Lex Porcia passed in 199 BC by his ancestor. [ 1 ]
Denarius of Publius Porcius Laeca, circa 110 BC. The reverse shows a scene of Provocatio : a citizen (left) is appealing the decision of a governor (centre), who had summoned someone with rods (right) to punish him. [ 53 ]