Philo, Publilius
1. L. PUBLILIUS VOLER. N. PHILO VOLSCUS, L. F., consular tribune B. C. 400, is called by Livy a patrician, but this is certainly an error, since the family was without question plebeian. Livy likewise calls him simply L. Publilius Volscus, but we learn from the Capitoline Fasti that Philo was also one of his surnames. (Liv. 5.12; Fast. Capit.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.