Lex Porcia
Lex Porcia probably B.C. 197, appears to have enacted that a Roman citizen might save himself from the punishment of death or flogging by withdrawing into exile (Sal. Cat. 51; Cic. pro Rabirio, 3, 4; in Verr. 5.63, 163; Liv. 10.9; Gel. 10.3, 13). Cicero (de Rep. ii, 31, 54) alludes to three leges Porciae on this or similar matters, but nothing more is known about them.
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.