Philon
7. A Thessalian, who accompanied the Achaean deputies on their return from the camp of Q. Caecilius Metellus (B. C. 146), and endeavoured, but in vain, to induce the Achaeans to accept the terms offered them by the Roman general. (Plb. 40.4.)
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.