Publius Porcius Laeca (tribune 199 BC)

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Publius Porcius Laeca (2nd-century BC) was a Roman politician.

Biography[edit]

Publius Porcius Laeca was tribune of the plebs in 199 BC, when he prevented Lucius Manlius Acidinus from entering Rome to celebrate an ovation granted by the senate.[1] As tribune, he proposed the Lex Porcia. In 196, he was one of the tresviri epulones.[2] He was assigned as praetor in 195 to Pisa with the task of fighting the Ligurians.

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ Livy, xxviii. 38, xxix. 1—3, 13, xxxii. 7
  2. ^ T.R.S. Broughton, The Magistrates of the Roman Republic (American Philological Association, 1952), vol. 2, p. 606.