Cum Ptolomaeus rex tutorem populum Romanum filio reliquisset, senatus M. Aemilium Lepidum, pontificem maximum, bis consulem, ad pueri tutelam gerendam Alexandriam misit, amplissimique et integerrimi viri sanctitatem rei publicae usibus et sacris operatam externae procurationi vacare voluit, ne fides civitatis nostrae frustra petita existimaretur.
When king Ptolemy left the Roman people guardian to his son, the senate sent M. Aemilius Lepidus, Chief Pontiff and twice Consul, to Alexandria to look after the boys tutelage, desiring that the probity of a very eminent and upright personage, versed in the usages and rituals of the commonwealth, should take time for an external charge, lest the faith of our community be thought to have been invoked in vain.
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