Marcus Lucretius (possibly Marcus Lucretius Gallus) was tribune of the plebs in 172 BC. Like his brother, Gaius, presumably he was of local descent in Antium.T. De Haas, G. Tol, P. Attema, Investing in the colonia and ager of Antium, on Daniele Malfitana, Jeroen Problome, John Lund (edited by), «Facta: a journal of roman material culture studies», Pisa-Roma, Fabrizio Serra, vol. V, 2011, p. 136. In the same year, after Lucius Postumius Albinus had recovered for the Roman state a large amount of Campanian land that had been misappropriated by private citizens, Lucretius brought forward a bill (ut agrum Campanum censores fruendum locarent) in the Roman Senate proposing that the censors should rent out this land for farming.
In the following year, he served in the Third Macedonian War as legate to his brother, the general Gaius Lucretius Gallus, and was party to his war crimes in Haliartus. He commanded a fleet of eighty ships.Livy, Ab Urbe Condita Libri xlii. 19, 48, 56.
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