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.