Petillius
1, 2. Q. Petillii, two tribunes of the plebs, B. C. 185, are said to have been instigated by Cato the Censor, to accuse Scipio Africanus the elder, of having been bribed by Antiochus to allow that monarch to come off too leniently; but according to other authorities it was M. Naevius and not the Petillii who brought the charge. On the death of Africanus in this year, the Petillii brought forward a bill for making an iquiry respecting the persons who had received money from Antiochus without paying it into the treasury. 49 (Liv. 38.50, 54, 56; comp. Gel. 4.18; Aur. Vict. de Vir. Ill.) [Naevius, No. 4.]
3. L. Petillius, a scriba, in whose land at the foot of the Janiculus, the books of Niuma were said to have been found in B. C. 181. The books were subsequently taken to the city-praetor Petillius Spurinus. (Liv. 40.29.) [Numa, p. 1213a.]
4. L. Petillius, was sent as ambassador in B. C. 168 with M. Perperna to the llyrian king Gentius, and was with his colleague thrown into prison by that king, but was liberated shortly afterwards on the conquest of Gentius by the praetor Anicius. (Liv. 44.27, 32; Appian, Muc. 16.1.)
5. M. Petilius, a Roman eques, who carried on business at Syracuse, while Verres was governor of Sicily. (Cic. Ver. 2.29.)
6. Q. Petilius, a judex at the trial of Milo. (Cic.pro Mil. 16.)
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