Philota
(Φιλώτα, φιλότις), or PHI'LOTIS, a woman of Epeirus, mother of CHAROPS the younger. She aided and seconded her son throughout in his cruelty and extortion, having quite thrown off her woman's nature, as Polybius and Diodorus tell us. (Plb. 32.21; Diod. Exc. de Virt. et Vit. p. 587.)
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.