person
Marcus Porcius Laeca
Laeca
also: Marcus Laeca, M. Laeca
A Catilinarian conspirator at whose house, in the street of the scythe-makers, the conspirators met on the night of 6/7 November 63 BC to make their final assignments, including the plan to assassinate Cicero.
Reading notes
- For Publius Sulla §52 at Marcus Laeca's, on the night which followed the day after the Nones of November
The night meeting (6/7 November 63 BC) in the house of the conspirator M. Porcius Laeca, in the street of the scythe-makers, where the plot's final assignments were made --- including the plan to murder Cicero at dawn. The "Nones of November" is the 5th; Roman dates were reckoned from fixed points (Kalends, Nones, Ides).