A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology

Smith, William

A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. William Smith, LLD, ed. 1890

(Φιλώτα, φιλότις), or PHI'LOTIS, a woman of Epeirus, mother of CHAROPS the younger. She aided and seconded her son throughout in his cruelty and extortion, having quite thrown off her woman's nature, as Polybius and Diodorus tell us. (Plb. 32.21; Diod. Exc. de Virt. et Vit. p. 587.)

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