Publius Porcius Laeca

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Publius Porcius Laeca was the name of several Romans in the Republican era, including:

Publius Porcius Laeca (tribune 199 BC)[]

P. 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.

Publius Porcius Laeca (senator 63 BC)[]

A P. Porcius Laeca who was a senator in 63 BC participated in the Catilinarian conspiracy.[3]

Publius Porcius Laeca (monetalis)[]

In 110–109 BC, a P. Porcius Laeca was a moneyer (monetalis).[4]

Notes[]

  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.
  3. ^ Cicero, In Catilinam 1.4 and 2.6, Pro Sulla 18; Sallust, Bellum Catilinae 27; Florus 2.12.3.
  4. ^ Broughton, MRR2 pp. 449 and 606, with references to numismatic sources.
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