Modern historians have described Philip V as a man of "considerable intelligence and sensitivity", and the "wisest and politically most apt" of Philip IV's three sons.
現代歷史學家形容腓力五世為“相當高的智慧和靈敏度”的人，而且是腓力四世的三個兒子中“明智和政治上最為恰當”的兒子 。