Publius Porcius Laeca (tribune 199 BC) explained

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 and References

  1. Livy, xxviii. 38, xxix. 1—3, 13, xxxii. 7
  2. [T.R.S. Broughton]