Philus
3. P. Furius Philus, praetor B. C. 174, obtained Nearer Spain as his province. On his return to Rome he was accused by the provincials of repetundae. The elder Cato spoke against him: on the first hearing the case was adjourned (anpliatus), but fearing a condemnation, when it came on again, Philus went into exile to Praeneste, B. C. 171. (Liv. 41.21, 43.2; Cic. in Caecil. Div. 20; Pseudo-Ascon. in loc. p. 124, ed. Orelli; Meyer, Orut. Romn. Fragm. p. 97, 2nd ed.)
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.