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Porcius Licinius
Porcius can refer to: * Members of the ancient Roman gens Porcia * Florian Porcius Florian Porcius (–) was an Austro-Hungarian ethnic Romanian botanist and administrator. Born in Rodna, a village in Transylvania's Bistrița-Năsăud County, he came from a poor peasant family, and his parents were Precup Șteopan and his ... (1816–1907), a Romanian botanist See also * Porcia (other) {{Disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Porcia Gens
The gens Porcia, rarely written Portia, was a plebeian family at Ancient Rome. Its members first appear in history during the third century BC. 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.''Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology'', vol. III, p. 498 ("Porcia Gens"). Origin The nomen ''Porcius'' was derived from ''porcus'', a pig. It belongs to a class of gentilicia derived from the names of common animals and objects, such as ''Asinius'', ''Ovinius'', ''Caprarius'', and ''Taurus''. The Porcii were reputed to have come from the ancient city of Tusculum in Latium. This tradition was alluded to in a speech given by the emperor Claudius. Praenomina The chief praenomina of the Porcii were '' Marcus'' and ''Lucius'', two of the most common names throughout Roman history. The Porcii Catones favoured ''Marcus'', almost to th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Florian Porcius
Florian Porcius (–) was an Austro-Hungarian ethnic Romanian botanist and administrator. Born in Rodna, a village in Transylvania's Bistrița-Năsăud County, he came from a poor peasant family, and his parents were Precup Șteopan and his wife Ioana. He was raised by his grandfather, the priest Gherasim Porcu (Latinized as Porcius), whose name he took by adoption. In 1824, he entered the primary school in Rodna, for miners' sons, where he began to pick up the German and Hungarian languages. From 1827 to 1831, he attended the German-language military normal school in Năsăud, followed by the high schools in Blaj and Cluj from 1833 to 1836.Alexandru Nistor, ''Îndrumător în Arhivele Statului Județul Bistrița-Năsăud'', pp. 416-17. Bucharest: Direcția Generală a Arhivelor Statului din Republica Socialistă România, 1988 In 1836, Porcius was named a schoolteacher in his native village. In 1844, Porcius he a scholarship from the Military Frontier fund allowing him to st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
