Abrupolis

{{Short description|2nd-century BC king of the Thracian Sapaei}}

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Abrupolis (Ancient Greek,"Ἀβρούπολις") (fl. 2nd century BC) was a king of the Thracian Sapaei,{{cite book

| last = Thirlwall

| first = Connop

| author-link = Connop Thirlwall

| title = The History of Greece, Vol. 8

| publisher = Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans

| year = 1855

| location = London

| pages = [https://archive.org/details/historygreece04thirgoog/page/n450 426]

| url = https://archive.org/details/historygreece04thirgoog

}} 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{{Cite book

| 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

| place = Boston, MA

| year = 1867

| contribution-url = http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0012.html

| access-date = 2007-09-09

| archive-date = 2005-12-31

| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20051231191519/http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0012.html

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}} 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 | author-link = Theodor Mommsen | title = The History of Rome | year = 1854 }} 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.