ANDRISCUS, "pseudo-Philip," a fuller of Adramyttium, claimed to be a son of Perseus, last king of Macedonia. He seized the Macedonian throne in 149 B.C., after defeating the Roman praetor, and his conquest of Thessaly and alliance with Carthage made the situation dangerous. In 148 he was defeated by Q. Caecilius Metellus and given up to Rome. After this Macedonia was formally reduced to a province.
See Velleius Paterculus i. 1 i ; Florus ii. 14; Livy, Epit. 49, 50, 52 ; Diod. Sic. xxxii. 9.