Note 702 — Chapter IV · THE MAGISTRACY
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Cic. de Leg. iii. 3, 6 “magistratus nec oboedientem et noxium civem multa, vinculis, verberibus coerceto, ni par majorve potestas populusve prohibessit, ad quos provocatio esto.” A lex Porcia prohibited the scourging of a Roman citizen by a gravis poena (Liv. x. 9); but that technically it merely submitted the threat of such coercitio to appeal is shown by the fact that the law is classed amongst those regulating the provocatio (Cic. de Rep. ii. 31, 54).