Publius Porcius Laeca (2nd-century BC) was a Roman politician.
Biography
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
- ^ Livy, xxviii. 38, xxix. 1—3, 13, xxxii. 7
- ^ T.R.S. Broughton, The Magistrates of the Roman Republic (American Philological Association, 1952), vol. 2, p. 606.
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