(), one of the chief men of Rhodes, who, when the
war broke out between Perseus and the Romans (B. C. 171), vainly
endeavoured to induce his countrymen to pay no regard to the letter which C. Lucretius had
sent to ask for ships, and which Deinon pretended was a forgery of their enemy Eumenes, king
of Pergamus, designed to involve them in a ruinous war. But, though he failed on this
occasion, he still kept up a strong opposition to the Roman party. In B. C.
167, after the defeat of Perseus, the Rhodians delivered him up to the Romans by way
of propitiating them. Polybius calls him a bold and covetous adventurer, and censures him for
what he considers an unmanly clinging to life after the ruin of his fortunes. (Plb. 27.6,11, 28.2, 29.5, 30.6_8; Liv.
44.23, 29, 45.22.)