person
Antiochus IV Epiphanes
Antiochus IV
also: Antiochus, King Antiochus, Antiochum regem
Seleucid king of Syria (reigned 175-164 BC) whose invasion of Egypt was halted by the Roman envoy C. Popilius Laenas in 168 BC. Cicero refers to him in the Popilius anecdote in the Eighth Philippic.