page_title: Porcia gens
section_title: Porcii Laecae
hierarchical_section_title: Porcia gens / Members / Porcii Laecae
caption_attribution_description: Publius Porcius Laeca. Denarius (AR; 18-19 mm; 3.96 g; 9 h) 110-109 BC. Obverse: Helmeted head of Roma right, LAECA behind, before X; Reverse: Three figures, the centre one is a man clad in the paludamentum, laying his right hand on the head of a citizen wearing a toga, and behind him stands a lictor; beneath these figures there is the legend PROVOCO.
context_page_description: The gens Porcia, rarely written Portia, was a plebeian family at Ancient Rome. Its members first appear in history during the third century BC. The first of the gens to achieve the consulship was Marcus Porcius Cato in 195 BC, and from then until imperial times, the Porcii regularly occupied the highest offices of the Roman state.
context_section_description: Publius Porcius Laeca tribune of the plebs in 199 BC, he proposed of the lex Porcia of that year.  In 196, he was one of the first of the triumviri epulones.  The following year he was praetor, and was stationed near Pisae in order to assist the consul Lucius Valerius Flaccus against the Gauls and Ligurians.
  Publius Porcius P. f. Laeca, a senator circa 165 BC.
  Marcus Porcius Laeca, triumvir monetalis in 125 BC; his coins feature Libertas, a reference to the Lex Porcia passed by Publius Porcius Laeca, the tribune of 199.
  Publius Porcius Laeca, triumvir monetalis about 110 or 109 BC; his coins refer to the Lex de Porcia capita civium, which extended the right of Provocatio to Roman citizens in the provinces.  He was possibly a tribune of the plebs during the early years of the first century BC.
  Marcus Porcius Laeca, a senator, and one of the leaders of the conspiracy of Catiline.  The conspirators met at his house in November of 63 BC.
caption: Denarius of Publius Porcius Laeca, circa 110 BC. The reverse shows a scene of Provocatio: a citizen (left) is appealing the decision of a governor (centre), who had summoned someone with rods (right) to punish him.[22]
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