(), a Rhodian of distinction. On the breaking
out of the war between the Romans and Perseus (B. C. 171), he
advised his countrymen to side with the former. (Plb. 27.6.3.)
After the war, when the Rhodians were threatened with hostilities by the Romans, Astymedes was
sent as ambassador to Rome to deprecate their anger. The tenour of his speech on the occasion
is censured by Polybius. (30.4, 5; Liv. 45.21_25.) Three years afterwards, he was again sent as ambassador to Rome, and succeeded
in bringing about an alliance between the Romans and his countrymen. (Polyb. xxxi, 6, 7.) In
B. C. 153, on the occasion of the war with Crete, we find him
appointed admiral, and again sent as ambassador to Rome. (Polyb 33.14.)