Manius Acilius Glabrio (Consul 191 BC)

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Manius Acilius Glabrio was a Roman politician in the late 3rd and early 2nd centuries BC. He belonged to the gens Acilia and was the first plebeian homo novus from this family to reach the consulate .

As a tribune of the people , Glabrio secured 201 BC The continuation of Scipio's command in Africa. 200 BC He became decemvir sacrorum , 197 BC. BC Aedile . As praetor , he suppressed 196 BC. A slave uprising in Etruria . 191 BC He took part in the campaign against the Seleucids Antiochus III as consul . part, defeated him at Thermopylae , fought the Aitolians and besieged Amphissa . After his triumphal procession in 190 BC He pulled a 189 BC. Chr. Postponed application to the censor after a process brought by his opponents.

With his law lex Acilia de intercalando , Glabrio transferred the regulation of leap years to the priests. His son of the same name was also a Roman politician. As Duumvir he consecrated the temple of the Pietas , which his father built in the battle of Thermopylae in 191 BC. He had praised (vota) and placed a gilded statue of his father in it.

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  1. Livy 40, 34, 5-6.