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  • Two ceremonies were performed, one for the purification of the house by the sacrifice of a sow (_porca praesentanea_) to Ceres accompanied by a solemn sweeping out of refuse (_exverræ_), the other the lustration of their own persons by fire and water.

    The Religion of Ancient Rome Cyril Bailey 1914

  • One idea, however, seems always to be prominent, that the happiness of the dead could be much affected by the due performance of the funeral rites; hence it was the most solemn duty of the heir to perform the _iusta_ for the dead, and if he failed in any respect to carry them out, he could only atone for his omission by the annual sacrifice of a sow (_porca praecidanea_) to

    The Religion of Ancient Rome Cyril Bailey 1914

  • "That is a bad case, sir -- porca miseria!" says he.

    The Fool Errant Maurice Hewlett 1892

  • In the rite of the _porca praecidanea_, to which I have already referred, the instruction for the invocation of

    The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884

  • I still have a red winter coat I bought there, and I hang on to two pairs of pants that are unwearable-one that I literally wore holes in (I keep thinking I'll have a seamstress copy them) and another, really amazing pair made of a blue fabric with a little red woven into it, which I can't fit into anymore and probably never will again (porca miseria!).

    Chicago Reader 2009

  • Siluauus pecorjs, aruorum et RU uarum deus, cui porca oblata. de fViidi Sel.

    Lexicon vniversae rei nvmariae vetervm et praecipve Graecorvm ac Romanorvm: cvm observationibvs ... 1790

  • Concriddcus fcaque rex, afcendic coendculum porca:, & ilevic.

    Breviarium ecclesiæ Rotomagensis Rouen diocese 1777

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    Detective work on the Sherlock copyright issue Michael Allen 2005

  • _porca praecidanea_, which I have already mentioned as offered before harvest, was an example of the same system of insurance; for the first cutting of the corn was a sacred rite, and one in which it was easy to take a false step.

    The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884

  • Tellus for us: "quod humatus non sit, heredi porca praecidanea suscipienda Telluri et Cereri, aliter familia non pura est" (_ap.

    The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884

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  • L. porca = 1. a balk, ridge between two furrows; 2. a measure of land (in Spain); 3. a female swine.

    September 4, 2011

  • I say this several times a day.

    September 4, 2011

  • Swine! I'm adding it to my list.

    September 4, 2011