Legatus (Ambassador)
168
Aegyptus
(Broughton MRR I)
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Sent to Egypt where Popillius by a summary demand compelled Antiochus IV to cease hostilities and retire from Egypt (Polyb. 29.2.1-4, and 27; Liv. 44.19.13, and 29.1-5; 45.10-12.8, and 13.1; cf. Cic. Phil. 8.23; Vell. 1.10.1-2; Val. Max. 6.4.3; Iustin. 34.3.1-4; Dio fr. 68; Zon. 9.25; see Otto, ABAW 11 [1934] 80ff.; Swain, CPh 39 [1944] 89-94). They also ordered Ptolemy to send a hostile Rhodian to Rome (Polyb. 30.9.2). On Popillius, see Lübker no. 3. (Broughton MRR I)
Leg., amb. 168. See below, on C. Popillius Laenas (18).
(Broughton MRR III)