Abrupolis

Abrupolis (fl. 2nd century BC) was a king of the Thracian Sapaei,cite book
last = Thirlwall
first = Connop
authorlink = Connop Thirlwall
coauthors =
title = The History of Greece, Vol. 8
publisher = Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans
date = 1855
location = London
pages = 426
url = http://books.google.com/books?id=38ceAAAAMAAJ
doi =
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isbn = ] and ally of the Romans. He attacked the dominions of Perseus of Macedon, eldest son of the recently deceased Philip V of Macedon, around 179 BC, and laid them waste as far as Amphipolis, as well as overrunning the gold mines of Mount Pangaeus. He was afterwards driven out of his holdings by Perseus, [Livy xlii. 13. 30. 41] [Citation
last = Smith
first = William
author-link = William Smith (lexicographer)
contribution = Abrupolis
editor-last = Smith
editor-first = William
title = Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology
volume = 1
pages = 3
publisher =
place = Boston, MA
year = 1867
contribution-url = http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0012.html ] the conflict of which helped ignite the Third Macedonian War, since Rome took issue with the ousting of an ally from his territories. [Polybius. "The Histories", Book XXII, §8.]

While some ancient (and modern) writers considered Abrupolis's routing by Perseus a primary cause of the Third Macedonian War, [cite book
last = Mommsen
first = Theodor
authorlink = Theodor Mommsen
coauthors =
title = The History of Rome
publisher =
date = 1854
location =
pages =
url =
doi =
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isbn = ] other, later Roman writers, and modern scholars, tended to look upon it as an act of self-defense, [Appian, "History of the Macedonian Wars", from Constantine Porphyrogenitus, "The Embassies" §18, §22.] with Rome merely using it as one pretext for a quarrel with Perseus.

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