Porcus, porci, m g. Martial. An hogge.Auidus. Mart. A greedy hogge. Bimestris porcus. Hor. Saginatus. Propert. An hogge fatted.Dare piaculum porco fœmina.Cic.Porcus fectarius, Vide Sectarius in SEQVOR.Immolare porcum. Horat. Porcus Troianus, An hogge rosted with sundrie foules and other things in his bellie.Porci synceri, Vide SYNCERVS. Porcus. Colum. A pigge.Candidulus porcus. luuenal. A little white pigge.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
Porcius, i, m.; Porcia, ae, f., the name of a Roman gens. The most celebrated are, A. M. Porcius Cato Censorinus, or Major, the severe censor, whose life was written by Nepos, and for whom Cicero named his Essay on Old Age, Nep. Cato, 1 sqq.; Cic. Rep. 1, 1.—B. M. Porcius Cato, the younger, called Uticensis, because of his famous death at Utica, Sall. Cat. 52, 1; Cic. Att. 12, 12, 1.—C. In fem., Porcia, a sister of the younger Cato, wife of Domitius Ahenobarbus, Cic. Att. 13, 37; 3, 48.—Hence, II. Porcĭus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to a Porcius, Porcian: lex, of the people's tribune P. Porcius Laeca, Liv. 9, 10; Cic. Rab. Perd. 4, 12; id. Verr. 2, 5, 63, 163; Sall. C. 51, 40: basilica,
porcus, i, m. [cf. Gr. po/rkos, Varr. L. L. 5, 97 Müll.; Umbr. purka, O. H. Germ. farah]. I.Lit., a tame swine, a hog, pig: sunt domi agni, et porci sacres, Plaut. Rud. 4, 6, 4: villa abundat porco, haedo, agno, gallinā, etc., Cic. Sen. 16, 56; Mart. 8, 22, 1: Scrofa alat suos porcos,
her pigs
, Varr. R. R. 2, 4, 13: porcus femina,
a female swine
,
sow
, Cato, R. R. 134; Cic. Leg. 2, 22, 57.—Of a glutton, as a term of reproach, hog, Hor. Ep. 1, 4, 16; Cat. 39, 11.—II.Transf.A. Porcus marinus, the sea-hog, porpoise, Plin. 32, 5, 19, 56; also called simply porcus, id. 32, 2, 9, 19.—B. = pudendum muliebre, Varr. R. R. 2, 4, 10.—C. Caput porci, in milit. lang., a wedge-shaped order of battle, Amm. 17, 13; cf. porcinus, II.