The New International Encyclopædia/Andriscus

ANDRIS′CUS (Gk. Ἀνδρίσκος, Andriskos). A man of low origin, who pretended to be the son of Perseus, King of Macedonia. He was seized, sent to Rome, and imprisoned; but escaping, he assumed the name of Philip, and in 149 B.C. defeated the prætor Juventius in battle. He reigned as a cruel and oppressive tyrant for about a year, but was finally conquered in 148 B.C. by Quintus Cæcilius Metellus, and again taken to Rome, where he was put to death.