Philocrates
4. A Rhodian, was one of the ambassadors sent from Rhodes in B. C. 167, after the war with Perseus, to avert the anger of the Romans,--an object which they had much difficulty in effecting. (Plb. 30.4, 5; Liv. 45.20_25.)
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.