4. An Achaean, a native of Patrae. He is mentioned by Polybius as one of those who
counselled the maintenance of neutrality between the Romans and Perseus (28.6). After the
conclusion of the war with Perseus, when the Roman commissioners, Claudius and Domitius, in a
meeting of the Achaean assembly denounced as partisans of Perseus all who had been generals of
the Achaeans during the war, Xenon, who had filled that office, rose to repel the charge, and
offered to stand his trial before either an Achaean or a Roman tribunal. He was doubtless one
of the Achaeans who, upon this, were sent to Rome, professedly to take their trial, but who
were detained in various Italian cities for several years. (