Manius Acilius Glabrio
Manius Acilius Glabrio was the name (tria nomina) used by several ancient Roman men of the gens Acilia, including:
- Manius Acilius Glabrio, a consul of the Roman Republic in 191 BC.
- Manius Acilius Glabrio, a suffect consul in 154 BC.[1] In 181 BC, he was on the two-man commission for temple dedications (duumviri aedi dedicandae): he was in charge of the Temple of Pietas in the Forum Holitorium, and a Lucius Porcius Cato the Temple of Venus Erycina near the Colline Gate.[2] He was curule aedile in 166 with Marcus Fulvius Nobilior, in charge of presenting the Ludi Megalenses at which the Andria of the comic playwright Terence was first presented.[3] He served as praetor in the year 157 at the latest.[4] His father had the same name, and his grandfather was a Gaius Acilius Glabrio.[5]
- Manius Acilius Glabrio, a tribune of the plebs in 123 or 122 BC who sponsored a lex de repetundis, one of a number of Roman laws aimed at curbing extortion among Roman governors. A Lex Acilia is known from an inscription, and a Lex Rubria Acilia is mentioned in a senatus consultum—an indication that the tribune Gaius Rubrius was a co-sponsor.[6]
- Manius Acilius Glabrio, consul in 67 BC.
- Manius Acilius Glabrio, possibly a lieutenant who served under Julius Caesar who is more likely a Marcus Acilius.[7] A Marcus Acilius Caninus or Caninianus was quaestor pro praetore in Macedonia 45–44, and suffect consul in 33 BC.[8]
- Manius Acilius Glabrio, a consul in AD 91 who was put to death by Domitian.
- Manius Acilius Glabrio, consul in 124, and proconsul of Africa in 139/140.[9]
- Manius Acilius Glabrio Gnaeus Cornelius Severus, also known as Manius Acilius Glabrio, consul in 152
- Manius Acilius Glabrio, consul with Commodus in 186.
- Marcus Acilius Glabrio, consul in 256
- Acilius Glabrio, grammarian in Bordeaux in the fourth century AD, a student of Ausonius.[10]
References
- ^ Recorded in the Fasti Capitolini and Fasti Antiates; T.R.S. Broughton, The Magistrates of the Roman Republic (American Philological Association, 1951, 1986), vol. 1, p. 449.
- ^ Livy 40.34.5; Valerius Maximus 2.5.1; Festus 228 in the edition of Lindsay; Pliny, Natural History 7.121; Broughton, MRR1, p. 386.
- ^ Broughton, MRR1, p. 437, citing Donatus.
- ^ Broughton, MRR1, p. 447.
- ^ Broughton, MRR2 (1952), p. 525.
- ^ CIL 12.2.583; Cicero, In Verrem 1.51 and 2.1.26; Pseudo-Asconius 221; Asconius 231 (Stangl); Broughton, MRR1, pp. 517, 519 (note 4).
- ^ Broughton, MRR2, p. 285.
- ^ Broughton, MRR2, pp. 308, 326.
- ^ Werner Eck, "Ergänzungen zu den Fasti Consulares des 1. und 2. Jh.n.Chr.", Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte, 24 (1975), pp. 324-344, esp. pp. 325f
- ^ Ausonius, Professores 24.