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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.^{[citation needed]}

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.^[1] In 166 BC, he served as aedile. In 165 BC, he helped to organize the Megalesian games.^[2] In 154 BC, Acilius Glabrio was appointed suffect consul upon the premature death of Lucius Postumius Albinus.^[3]

References

^ Titus Livius, XL, 34
^ Valerius Maximus, Famous Sayings, II, 5, 1
^ Charles Ludwig Elvers, The New Pauly's Encyclopedia of Classical Antiquity, Vol. 1, p. 87