Manius Acilius Glabrio (consul 154 BC)

Manius Acilius Glabrio was a Roman politician in the second century BC.

Family He was a member of gens Acilia. His father was Manius Acilius Glabrio, consul in 191 BC.

Career In 181 BC, Acilius Glabrio completed the building of the Temple of Piety and dedicated it. In the temple he erected a statue of his father, the first in Rome made of gold.Titus Livius, XL, 34 In 166 BC, he served as aedile. In 165 BC, he helped to organize the Megalesian games.Valerius Maximus, Famous Sayings, II, 5, 1 In 154 BC, Acilius Glabrio was appointed suffect consul upon the premature death of Lucius Postumius Albinus.Charles Ludwig Elvers, The New Pauly's Encyclopedia of Classical Antiquity, Vol. 1, p. 87

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