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Encyclopedia > Porcia

Porcia (male - Porcius) is a Roman gens name, it may refer to several women around in the late Roman republic: Area under Roman control  Roman Republic  Roman Empire  Western Empire  Eastern Empire Ancient Rome was a civilization that grew from a city-state founded on the Italian Peninsula circa the 9th century BC to a massive empire straddling the Mediterranean Sea. ... GENS is an open source emulator for the Sega Genesis (Sega Megadrive). ... See also Roman Republic (18th century) and Roman Republic (19th century). ...

It can all be used in these adjective phrases: Porcia (Before 95 BC-46/45 BC) was the daughter Marcus Porcius Cato Salonianus and Livia Drusa. ... Marcus Porcius Cato Uticensis (95 BC–46 BC), known as Cato the Younger to distinguish him from his great-grandfather Cato the Elder, was a politician and statesman in the late Roman Republic, and a follower of the Stoic philosophy. ... Porcia Catonis, also known simply as Porcia [1] (Around 70 BC-42 BC) was a Roman woman, daughter of Marcus Porcius Cato Uticencis and his first wife Atilia. ... Marcus Porcius Cato Uticensis (95 BC–46 BC), known as Cato the Younger to distinguish him from his great-grandfather Cato the Elder, was a politician and statesman in the late Roman Republic, and a follower of the Stoic philosophy. ... Marcus Junius Brutus (85 BC – 42 BC), or Quintus Servilius Caepio Brutus, was a Roman senator of the late Roman Republic. ...

  • Basilica Porcia, the first basilica in Rome, built for judicial and business purposes by Cato the Elder in 184 BC.
  • Lex Porcia, a Roman law.
    • (199 BC) proposed by tribune P. Porcius Laeca to give right of appeal in capital cases.
    • (195 BC) M. Porcius Cato prohibited scourging of citizens without appeal.
    • (184 BC) consul L. Porcius Licinus safeguarded citizens from summary execution on military service, all dealing with right of appeal (provocatio).

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Porcia was a passionate woman as devoted to the cause of republican Rome as her father, Marcus Porcius Cato Uticensis, a leader among the optimates opposing Gaius Julius Caesar.
Porcia was said to have sensed that Brutus was engaged in a secret undertaking.
Porcia was ill and despondent, and her friends were worried that she might kill herself.
Das Schloß  Porcia (329 words)
Kaiser Ferdinands I. spanischer Generalschatzmeister Gabriel von Salamanca, Marktherr in Spittal, gab den Bau 1533 in Auftrag.
Das Schloß Porcia, unter dessen Besitzern es viele kunstsinnige und musikkundige Mäzene gab, entwickelte sich zu einem Hort der schönen Künste und zu einer Bühne verfeinerter Lebensart bis in unsere Gegenwart.
At the north-western end of the main square, near the former exit of the town, there is the SCHLOSS PORCIA, a successful combination of an urban "palazzo" and an impressing laying-out of the castle in the Italian Renaissance style.
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