Glabrio

GLABRIO. 1. MANIUS ACILIUS GLABRIO, Roman statesman and general, member of a plebeian family. When consul in 191 B.C. he defeated Antiochus the Great of Syria at Thermopylae, and compelled him to leave Greece. Flamininus interceded to save the Aetolians. In 189 Glabrio was a candidate for the censorship, but was opposed by the nobles.

See Censorinus, De die natali, xx. ; Macrobius, Saturnalia, i. 13 ; index to Livy ; Appian, Syr. 17-21.

2. MANIUS

AcILIUS GLABRIO, Roman statesman and general, grandson of the famous jurist P. Mucius Scaevola. When praetor urbanus (7o B.c.) he presided at the trial of Verres. When consul with L. Calpurnius Piso in 67 he brought forward a law (Lex Acilia Calpurnia) against illegal canvassing at elections. In the same year he was appointed to supersede L. Lucullus in the gov ernment of Cilicia and the command of the war against Mithri dates, but he did nothing, and was in turn superseded by Pompey.

See Dio Cassius xxxvi. 14, 16. 24 ; Cicero, Pro. lege Manilia, 2. 9 ; Appian, Mithrid. 90.