person
Quintus Petillius
Q. Petillius
also: Petillii
Either of the two tribunes of the plebs named Q. Petillius who, at Cato's instigation, prosecuted the Scipios in 187 BC.
Reading notes
- The History of Rome, Book 38 §39 Quintus Petillii
The two tribunes of the plebs named Q. Petillius who, prompted by Cato, brought Scipio Africanus to trial.
- The History of Rome, Book 40 §19 Quintus Petillius
City praetor (Quintus Petillius Spurinus); he takes the “books of Numa,” judges them subversive, and has them burned.