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Quintus Marcius Philippus

fl. 186–169 BCE · 2nd century BCE

Quintus Marcius Philippus was a Roman politician who was consul in 186 BCE and again in 169 BCE. Sent as an envoy to Greece in 172–171 BCE, he gained time for Rome by negotiating a truce with Perseus of Macedon and persuaded the Boeotian cities to abandon their league. As consul in 169 BCE he led a Roman army through the mountains into Macedonia during the Third Macedonian War.

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