Marcus Aemilius LepidusArticle Free Pass Marcus Aemilius
Lepidus, (died 152 bc), Roman statesman who held the highest
offices of the republic. As ambassador to Greece, Syria, and
Egypt in 200, he delivered to Philip V at Abydos the Senate’s
ultimatum warning Macedonia not to make war on any Greek state.
Consul in 187 and 175, censor in 179, pontifex maximus from 180
onward, and princeps senatus from 179 to 152, Lepidus fought
against the Ligurians, directed the construction of the Via
Aemilia from Ariminum (modern Rimini) to Placentia (modern
Piacenza), and founded colonies at Mutina (modern Modena) and
Parma in 183. The district of northern Italy called Emilia still
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