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, consul with Commodus in 186.
• Marcus Acilius Glabrio (consul 256)

References

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. Broughton, MRR¹, p. 437, citing Donatus.
4. Broughton, MRR¹, p. 447.
5. Broughton, MRR² (1952), p. 525.
6. 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).
7. Broughton, MRR², p. 285.
8. Broughton, MRR², pp. 308, 326.
9. 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