Acilius

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Acilius (feminine form Acilia ) was the noun of the gens Acilia , a plebeian family in the Roman Empire . The most important branches of the family were the (imperial) Aviolae , the Balbi and especially the Glabriones , which from the 3rd century BC. Are attested until the end of the 5th century AD.

A grave of Acilii Glabriones was found in Rome in 1888 . In the 2nd century they had a garden on the collis hortulorum (now Pincio , north of the Quirinal and northeast of the Campus Martius ), the Horti Aciliorum .

In Rome there was a compitum Acilium on which 219 BC The first Greek doctor was settled in Rome.

Important members of the family were:

Republican time

Imperial times

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