Porcia may refer to:
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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 unt ...
, ancient Roman family
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Porcia (wife of Brutus)
Porcia ( BC – June 43 BC), occasionally spelled "Portia", especially in 18th-century English literature, was a Roman woman who lived in the 1st century BC. She was the daughter of Marcus Porcius Cato Uticensis (Cato the Younger) and his first ...
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Porcia (sister of Cato the Younger)
Porcia (before 95 BC – 46/45 BC), was the daughter of Marcus Porcius Cato and Livia.
Biography Early life
She was the elder sister of Cato the Younger and the younger half-sister of Servilia, Servilia Minor and Gnaeus Servilius Caepio. ...
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Valerian and Porcian laws
The Valerian and Porcian laws were Roman laws passed between 509 BC and 184 BC. They exempted Roman citizens from degrading and shameful forms of punishment, such as whipping, scourging, or crucifixion. They also established certain rights for Rom ...
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Porcia, Friuli-Venezia Giulia
Porcia () is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Pordenone in the Italian region Friuli-Venezia Giulia, located about northwest of Trieste and about west of Pordenone.
Main sights
*The castle, residence from the 12th century of the P ...
, a municipality in Italy
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Schloss Porcia
Schloss Porcia (Porcia Castle) is a castle in Spittal an der Drau, in the Austrian state of Carinthia. It is one of the most significant Renaissance buildings in Austria.
History
The construction of the castle began in 1533 at the behest of Coun ...
, a castle in Spittal an der Drau, Austria
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Porcius (disambiguation) 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 Count ...
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Portia (disambiguation)
Portia may refer to:
Biology
* ''Portia'' (spider), a genus of jumping spiders
*''Anaea troglodyta'' or Portia, a brush-footed butterfly
*Portia tree, a plant native to Polynesia
Medication
A form of birth control made of ethinylestradiol/levo ...
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