Crossword-Solution: PORCA 5 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 9

She was one who disregarded great questions; who cared little or nothing what people said of her; who considered nothing worth the trouble of a fight;--Epicuri de grege porca.

Caelo supinas si tuleris manus Nascente luna, rustica Phidyle, Si ture placaris et horna Fruge Laris avidaque porca, Nec pestilentem sentiet Africum 5 Fecunda vitis nec sterilem seges Robiginem aut dulces alumni Pomifero grave tempus anno.

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 Ceres and Tellus--to the divinities of the earth, be it noticed, and not to the dead themselves.

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.

Thus the Fratres Arvales, if they had to take an iron implement into their sacred grove, offered a piaculum before as well as after this breach of religious rule.[403] Again, the _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.