Abrupolis, a king of the Thracian Sapaei,…

Abrupolis, a king of the Thracian Sapaei, and ally of the Romans, had attacked the dominions of Perseus around 179 BCE, and laid them waste as far as Amphipolis, as well as overrunning the gold mines of Mount Pangaeus.

He is eventually driven out of his holdings by Perseus, the conflict of which helps ignite the Third Macedonian War, since Rome takes issue with the ousting of an ally from his territories.

Flamininus, throughout his stewardship of Greece, has attempted to preserve Greek local autonomy, but Rome abandons this policy soon after his death in 174.

While some ancient (and modern) writers considered Abrupolis's routing by Perseus a primary cause of the Third Macedonian War, other, later Roman writers, and modern scholars, tended to look upon it as an act of self-defense, with Rome merely using it as one pretext for a quarrel with Perseus.