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considered the warm receptions received by their envoy to be indicative of Rome's anxiety over the war, a conviction that was confirmed in their eyes when Agepolis related how Philippus had taken him aside to ask privately why Rhodes did not intercede to help end the conflict.
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was a great burden for Greece, and ultimately unprofitable for Rome itself. The war, however, had already concluded with Rome's victory, and the Senate accused Agepolis of serving neither Greece nor Rome's interests, but those of the now-defeated Perseus.
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In 168 Agepolis went as ambassador to Rome to communicate to the Senate how Rome's war against
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Ancient Greek
Rhodes
ambassador
consul
Quintus Marcius Philippus
Perseus of Macedon
Herakleion
Macedon
Gaius Marcus Figulus
Rhodians
Perseus
Smith, William Smith
"Agepolis"
Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology
Little, Brown and Company
the original
Polybius
Friedrich Otto Hultsch
The Histories of Polybius
Macmillan & Co.
383
The Island of Roses and Her Eleven Sisters: Or, The Dodecanese from the earliest time down to the present day
Macmillan & Co.
181
Polybius
Livy
public domain
Smith, William
Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology
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