Manius Acilius Glabrio

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Manius Acilius Glabrio, Roman statesman and general, grandson of the famous jurist P. Mucius Scaevola.

When praetor urbanus (70 BC) he presided at the trial of Verres. According to Dio Cassius (xxxvi. 38), in conjunction with L. Calpurnius Piso, his colleague in the consulship (67), he brought forward a severe law (Lex Acilia Calpurnia) against illegal canvassing at elections.

In the same year he was appointed to supersede Lucius Licinius Lucullus in the government of Cilicia and the command of the war against Mithradates. He wrecked Roman control of the region because he released Lucullus's soldiers from his command, but he himself was unable to control the soldiery; he was in turn superseded by Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus according to the provisions of the lex Manilia. Little else is known of him except that he declared in favour of the death punishment for the Catilinarian conspirators.

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

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Preceded by:
Lucius Caecilius Metellus and Quintus Marcius Rex
Consul of the Roman Republic
with Gaius Calpurnius Piso
67 BC
Succeeded by:
Manius Aemilius Lepidus and Lucius Volcacius Tullus
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