Publius Porcius Laeca

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.
gollark: Which is... not too problematic, but an extra barrier to entry.
gollark: A bouncer is *a* solution, kind of, but it means I have to run an extra program just to get a basic feature which Discord and whatnot support.
gollark: Formatting does belong in the client, sure, except there's not really much of a way to get people to actually standardize on one.
gollark: But I think the biggest issue is not having message history.
gollark: I like at least having italicization work.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.