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GLABRIO . 1. MANIUS AcILIUs GLABRIO, See also:

Roman statesman and See also:general, member of a plebeian See also:family. When See also:consul in 191 B.C. he defeated See also:Antiochus the See also:Great of See also:Syria at See also:Thermopylae, and compelled him to leave See also:Greece. He then turned his See also:attention to the Aetolians, who had persuaded Antiochus to declare See also:war against See also:Rome, and was only prevented from crushing them by the intercession of T. Quinctius See also:Flamininus. In 189 Glabrio was a See also:candidate for the censorship, but was bitterly opposed by the nobles. He was accused by the tribunes of having concealed a portion of the Syrian spoils in his own See also:house; his See also:legate gave See also:evidence against him, and he withdrew his candidature. It is probable that he was the author of the See also:law which See also:left it to the discretion of the pontiffs to insert or omit the See also:intercalary See also:month of the See also:year. Censorinus, De See also:die natali, xx.; See also:Macrobius, Saturnalia, i. 13 ; See also:index to See also:Livy ; See also:Appian, Syr. 17-21.

2. MANIUS AcILIUs GLABRIO, Roman statesman and general, See also:

grandson of the famous jurist P. Mucius See also:Scaevola. When See also:praetor urbanus (70 B.C.) he presided at the trial of See also:Verres. According to Dio See also:Cassius (xxxvr. 38), in See also:conjunction with L. See also:Calpurnius See also:Piso, his colleague in the consulship (67), he brought forward a severe law (Lex Acilia Calpurnia) againstillegal canvassing at elections. In the same year he was appointed to supersede L. See also:Lucullus in the See also:government of See also:Cilicia and the command of the war against See also:Mithradates, but as he did absolutely nothing and was unable to See also:control the soldiery, he was in turn superseded by See also:Pompey according to the provisions of the Manilian law. Little else is known of him except that he declared in favour of the See also:death See also:punishment for the Catilinarian conspirators. Dio Cassius See also:xxxvi. 14, 16.

24; See also:

Cicero, See also:Pro lege Manilla, 2. 9; Appian, Mithrid. 90.

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