Editing Philo of Byblos (section)

==Life==
Philo was born in the 1st century in [[Byblos]] in what is now [[Lebanon]]. "He lived into the reign of [[Hadrian]], of which he wrote a history, now lost."<ref name=EB1911/> His name "Herennius" suggests that he was a client of the ''[[consul suffectus]]'' Herennius Severus through whom Philo may have achieved the status of a [[Roman citizen]].