Manius Acilius Glabrio (consul 191 BC)

Manius Acilius Glabrio was a Roman politician of the late 3rd and early 2nd century BC He was a member of the gens Acilia and reached the first plebeian homo novus from this family consulate.

As tribune Glabrio 201 BC secured the continued existence of Scipio's command in Africa. 200 BC he was Sacrorum decemvir, 197 BC aedile. As praetor in 196 BC he suppressed a slave uprising in Etruria. 191 BC, he took over as consul in the campaign against the Seleucid Antiochus III. in part, hit him at Thermopylae, fought against the Aetolians and besieged Amphissa. After his triumph in 190 BC, he pulled a 189 BC Asked Application to censor according to a lawsuit brought by his opponents back process.

His law lex de Acilia intercalando Glabrio transferred the regulation of leap years the priests. His son of the same was also a Roman politician. As duumvir he dedicated the Temple of Piety, his father had praised in the Battle of Thermopylae in 191 BC ( vota ) and placed in a gilded statue of his father.