Neon
2. A Messenian, son of Philiades, and brother of Thrasybulus, who is accused by Demosthenes of having betrayed his country to Philip king of Macedon (Dem. de Cor. p. 324, ed. Reiske; Harpocration, s. v. Νέων). An elaborate vindication of his conduct, together with that of others of his contemporaries who had adopted the same line of policy, is found in Polybius (17.14).
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.