You might want to read this,
https://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/wine/leadpoisoning.html
From that, "Certainly, the Romans knew lead to be dangerous, even if they did not associate it with their lead cooking vessels. Pliny speaks of the "noxious and deadly vapour" (sulfur dioxide) of the lead furnace (XXXIV.167; there was a four-fold increase in atmospheric Pb pollution during the Greco-Roman period); white lead (
cerussa) as a deadly poison (XXXIV.176), even though it was widely used as a medicine and cosmetic; and the power of
sapa (and onion) to induce an abortion (XXIII.30). Dioscorides cautions against taking white lead internally, as it is deadly (
Material Medica, V.103). Soranus in his
Gynecology (I.19.61) recommends that the mouth of the uterus be smeared with white lead to prevent conception. Galen (
De Antidotis, XIV.144) and Celsus (V.27.12b) both provide an antidote for poisoning by white lead, and Vitruvius remarks on the pernicious effects of water found near lead mines and its effect on the body (VIII.3.5, 6.11)."
Even in 'modern times' we didn't mind lead too much. Until they started making plastic toothpaste tubes, they were made of lead. "The original collapsible toothpaste tubes were made of
lead", from https://www.google.com/search?q=lead+in+tooth+paste+tubes&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8 I can remember those from the 1950's early 1960's, cutting them up for fishing sinkers.