1. A chief among the Epeirots, who sided with the Romans in their war with Philip V., and,
by sending a shepherd to guide a portion of the Roman army over the heights above the position
of the Macedonians, enabled Flamininus to dislodge Philip from the defile which he had
occupied in Epeirus, B. C. 198. (Plb.
17.3, 18.6, 27.13; Liv. 32.6, 11; Plut.
Flam. 4.) In B. C. 192, Charops was sent by his countrymen
on an embassy to Antiochus the Great, who was wintering at Chalcis in Euboea. He represented
to the king that the Epeirots were more exposed to the attacks of the Romans than any of the
inhabitants of the rest of Greece, and begged him therefore to excuse them from
siding with him unless he felt himself strong enough to protect them. (Plb. 20.3.) He continued to the end of his life to cultivate the friendship of the
Romans, and sent his grandson to Rome for education. (Plb. 27.13.)