) In this year recal of the exiles to Elis and Sparta, Glabrio re-
Rome declared war against Antiochus the Great turned to Phocis, and blockaded Amphissa.
Rome declared war against Antiochus the Great turned to Phocis, and blockaded Amphissa.
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c.
149.
(Polyb.
xxxvi.
1.
) (E.
H.
B.
]
city. Gisco and his fellow-prisoners remained in GI'TIADAS (ritiáðas), a Lacedaemonian ar-
captivity for some time, until Spendius and Matho, chitect, statuary, and poet. He completed the
alarmed at the successes of Hamilcar Barca, and temple of Athena Poliouchos at Sparta, and orna.
Apprehensive of the effects which the lenity he had mented it with works in bronze, from which it was
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GITIADAS.
GLABRIO.
.
called the Brazen House, and hence the goddess the way in which Gitiadas is mentioned with Cal-
received the surname of Xa KOOTKOS. Gitiadas lon by Pausanias that he was his contemporary, and
made for this temple the statue of the goddess and he therefore flourished about B. c. 516. (CALLON. )
other works in bronze (most, if not all of which, He is the last Spartan artist of any distinction.
seem to have been bas-reliefs on the walls), repre His teacher is unknown; but, as he flourished
Renting the labours of Heracles, the exploits of the in the next generation but one after Dipoenus and
Tyndarids, Hephaestus releasing his mother from Scyllis, he may have learnt his art from one of
her chains, the Nymphs arming Perseus for his their pupils ; perhaps from Theodorus of Samos,
expedition against Medusa, the Birth of Athena, and who lived a considerable time at Sparta (Hirt.
A. mphitrite and Poseidon. The artist also served Gesch, d. Bild. Kennt. p. 108. )
(P. S. )
the goddess as a poet, for he composed a hymn to GLABER, P. VARI'NIUS, praetor, B. c. 73.
her, besides other poems, in the Doric dialect. He was among the first of the Roman generals
(Paus. iii. 17. $ 3. )
sent agninst the gladiator Spartacus (SPARTACUS),
Gitiadas also made two of the three bronze tri- and both in his own movements and in those of his
pods at Amyclae. The third was the work of lieutenants he was singularly unfortunate. Spar-
Callon, the Aeginetan. The two by Gitiadas were tacus repeatedly defeated Glaber, and once captured
supported by statues of Aphrodite and Artemis his war-horse and his lictors. But, although com-
(Paus. iii. 18. § 5). This last passage has been missioned by the senate to put down the insurrec-
misinterpreted in two different ways, namely, as if tion of the slaves, Glaber had only a hastily levied
it placed the date of Gitiadas, on the one hand, as army to oppose to Spartacus, and a sickly autumn
high as the first or second Messenian War, or, on thinned its ranks. (Appian, B. C. i. 116; Plut
the other hand, as low as the end of the Pelopon- Crass. 9 ; Frontin. Stral. i. 5. 9 22. ) Florus (iii.
nesian War. The true meaning of Pausanias has 20) mentions a Clodius Glaber; compare, however,
been explained by Müller (Aeginet. p. 100), and Plutarch (l. c. ).
(W. B. D. )
Thiersch (Epochen, p. 146, &c. , Anmerk. p. 40, GLA'BRIO, a family name of the Acilia Gens
&c. ; comp. Hirt, in the Amalthea, vol. i. p. 260). at Rome. The Acilii Glabriones were plebeian
The passage may be thus translated :-“But, as to (Liv. xxxv. 10, 24, xxxvi. 57), and first appear on
the things worth seeing at Amyclae, there is upon the consular Fasti in the year B. c. 191, from which
a pillar a pentathlete, by name Aenetus.
time the name frequently occurs to a late period of
of him, then, there is an image and bronze tri- the empire. The last of the Glabriones who held
pods. (But as for the other more ancient tripods, the consulate was Anicius Acilius Glabrio Faustus,
they are said to be a tithe* from the war against one of the supplementary consuls in a. D. 438.
the Messenians. ) Under the first tripod stands an 1. C. Acilius GLABRIO, was quaestor in B. C.
image of Aphrodite, but Artemis under the second : 203, and tribune of the plebs in 197, when he
both the tripods themselves and what is wrought brought forward a rogation for planting five colo.
upon them are the work of Gitiadas : but the third nies on the western coast of Italy, in order pro-
is the work of the Aeginetan Callon : but under bably to repair the depopulation caused by the war
this stands an image of Cora, the daughter of De- with Hannibal. (Liv. xxxii. 29. ) Glabrio acted
meter. But Aristander, the Parian, and Polyclei- as interpreter to the Athenian embassy in B. C.
tus, the Argive, made (other tripods] ; the former 155, when the three philosophers, Carneades, Dio-
a woman holding a lyre, namely, Sparta ; but genes, and Critolaus came as envoys to Rome.
Polycleitus made Aphrodite, surnamed the Amy- (Carneades. ] (Gell. vii. 14 ; Plut. Cat. Maj. 22;
claean. ' But these last tripods exceed the others Macrob. Sat. i. 5. ) Glabrio was at this time ad-
in size, and were dedicated from the spoils of the vanced in years, of senatorian rank ; and Plutarch
victory at Aegospotami. ” That is, there were at calls him a distinguished senator (l. c. ). He wrote
Amyclae three sets of tripods, first, those made in Greek a history of Rome from the earliest
from the spoils of the (first or second) Messenian period to his own times. This work is cited by
War, which Pausanias only mentions parenthe Dionysius (iii. 77), by Cicero (de Off. ii. 32), by
tically ; then, those which, with the statue, formed Plutarch (Romul. 21), and by the author de Orig.
the monument of the Olympic victor Aenetus, made Gent. Rom. (c. 10. 82). It was translated into Latin
by Gitiadas and Callon; and, lastly, those made by by one Claudius, and his version is cited by Livy,
Aristander and Polycleitus out of the spoils of the under the titles of Annales Aciliani (xxv. 39) and
battle of Aegospotami. But in another passage Libri Aciliani (xxxv. 14). We perhaps read a
(iv. 14. $ 2), Pausanias appears to say distinctly passage borrowed or adapted from the work of Gla-
that the tripods at Amyclae, which were adorned brio in Appian (Syriac. 10). Atilius Fortunati-
with the images of Aphrodite, Artemis, and Cora, anus (de Art. Metric. p. 2680, ed. Putsch) ascribes
were dedicated by the Lacedaemonians at the end the Saturnian verse
of the first Messenian War. There can, however,
be little doubt that the words from 'Αφροδίτης
" Fundit, fugat, prosternit maximas legiones,"
to evtavla, are the gloss (which afterwards crept to an Acilius Glabrio. (Krause, Vet. Hist. Rom.
into the text) of some commentator who misunder- Fragm. p. 84. )
stood the former passage. Another argument that 2. M'. Acilius, C. F. L. N. GLABRIO, was tri-
Gitiadas cannot be placed nearly so high as the first bune of the plebs in B. C. 201, when he opposed
Messenian War is derived from the statement of claim of Cn. Corn. Lentulus, one of the consuls of
Pausanias (iii. 17. & 6) that the Zeus of Learchus that year, to the province of Africa, which a
of Rhegium was the oldest work in bronze at unanimous vote of the tribes had already decreed
Sparta.
to P. Scipio Africanus I. (Liv. xxx. 40. ) In the
These difficulties being removed, it is clear from following year Glabrio was appointed commissioner
of sacred rites (decemvir sacrorum) in the room of
* According to the reading of Jacobs and Bek- M. Aurelius Cotta, deceased (xxxi. 50). He was
ker, δεκάτην for δέκα,
praetor in B. c. 196, having presided at the Ple
:
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271
GLABRIO.
beian Games in the Flaminian Circus ; and from handful of men might have held it against tho
the fines for encroachment on the demesne lands whole consular army. But the difficulties of the
he consecrated bronze statues to Ceres and her off-road were all that Glabrio had to contend with, so
spring Liber and Libera (xxxiii. 25, comp. iii. 55 ; completely had bis stern demeanour and his re
Cic. de Nat. Deor. ii. 24) at the end of 197. peated victories quelled the spirit of the Aetolians.
Glabrio was praetor peregrinus (Liv. xxxiii. 24, 26), Naupactus was on the point of surrendering to
and quelled an insurrection of the praedial slaves Glabrio, but it was rescued by the intercession of
in Etruria, which was so formidable as to require the proconsul, T. Quintius Flamininus, and the be-
the presence of one of the city legions. (Liv. xxxiii. sieged were permitted to send an embassy to Rome.
36. ) In B. c. 193 he was an unsuccessful compe- After attending the congress of the Achaean cities
titor for the consulship, which, however, he ob- at Aegium, and a fruitless attenpt to procure a
tained in 191. (xxxv. 10, 24.
) In this year recal of the exiles to Elis and Sparta, Glabrio re-
Rome declared war against Antiochus the Great turned to Phocis, and blockaded Amphissa. While
king of Syria (ANTIOCHUS III. ]; and the com- yet engaged in the siege, his successor, L. Cor.
mencement of hostilities with the most powerful nelius Scipio, arrived from Rome, and Glabrio
monarch of Asia was thought to demand unusual gave up to him the command. (Polyb. xxi. 1,2;
religious solemnities. In the allotment of the pro- | Liv. xxxvi. 35, xxxvii. 6; Appian, Syr. 21. ) A
vinces, Greece, the seat of war, fell to Glabrio ; triumph was unanimously granted to Glabrio, but
but before he took the field he was directed by the its unusual splendour was somewhat abated by the
senate to superintend the sacred ceremonies and absence of his conquering army, which remained
processions, and to vow, if the campaign were pro- in Greece. He triumphed in the autumn of B. C.
sperous, extraordinary games to Jupiter, and offer- 190. “De Aetoleis et rege Syriae Antiocho. "
ings to all the shrines in Rome. (Liv. xxxvi. Glabrio was a candidate for the censorship in B. C.
1, 2. )
189. But the party of the nobles which, in 192, had
Glabrio, to whom the senate had assigned, be excluded him from the consulship, again prevailed.
sides the usual consular army of two legions, the It was rumoured that a part of the rich booty of
troops already quartered in Greece and Macedonia, the Syrian camp, which had not been displayed at
appointed the month of May and the city of Brun- his triumph, might be found in his house. The
disium as the time and place of rendezvous. From testimony of his legatus, M. Porcius Cato, was
thence he crossed over to Apollonia, at the head unfavourable to him, and Glabrio withdrew from
of 10,000 foot, 2,000 horse, and 15 elephants, an impeachment of the tribunes of the plebs, under
with power, if needful, to levy in Greece an addi- the decent pretext of yielding to a powerful faction.
tional force of 5000 men. (Liv. xxxvi. 14; Appian. (Liv. xxxvii. 57; Plut. Cat. Maj. 12, 13, 14;
Syr. 17. ) He made Larissa in Thessaly his head- Flor. ii. 8. § 10; Aur. Vict. Vir. IUustr. 47, 54 ;
quarters, from which, in co-operation with his ally, Front. Strat. i. 4. § 4; Eutrop. iii. 4; Appian,
Philip II. , king of Macedonia, he speedily reduced Syr. 17-21. )
to obedience the whole district between the Cam- 3. M'. Acilius M'. P. C. N. GLABRIO, son of the
bunian mountain chain and mount Oeta Limnaea, preceding, dedicated, as duumvir under a decree of
Pellinaeum, Pharsalus, Pherae, and Scotussa, ex- the senate, B. c. 181, the Temple of Piety in the
pelled the garrisons of Antiochus, and his allies herb-market at Rome. The elder Glabrio had
the Athamanes ; Philip of Megalopolis, a pretender vowed this temple on the day of his engagement
to the crown of Macedonia, was sent in chains to with Antiochus at Thermopylae, and his son
Rome;
and Amynander, the king of the Atha- placed in it an equestrian statue of his father, the
manes, was driven from his kingdom. (Liv. , Ap- first gilt statue erected at Rome (Liv. xl. 34; Val.
pian, Il. cc. )
Max. ii. 5. 1). Glabrio was one of the curule
Antiochus, alarmed at Glabrio's progress, en- aediles in B. c. 165, when he superintended the
trenched himself strongly at Thermopylae ; but celebration of the Megalensian games (Terent
although his Aetolian allies occupied the passes of Andr. tit. fab. ), and supplementary consul in B. C.
mount Oeta, the Romans broke through his out-154, in the room of L. Postumius Albinus, who
posts, and cut to pieces or dispersed his army. died in his consular year. (Obseq. de Prod. 76 ;
Boeotia and Euboea next submitted to Glabrio : Fast. Capit. )
he reduced Lamia and Heracleia at the foot of Oeta 4. M'. Acilius Glabrio, tribune of the plebs.
and in the latter city took prisoner the Aetolian The date of his tribuneship is not ascertained. He
Damocritus, who the year before had threatened to brought forward and carried the lex Acilia de Re
bring the war to the banks of the Tiber. The petundis, which prohibited ampliatio and compe-
Aetolians now sent envoys to Glabrio at Lamia. rendinatio. (Cic. in Verr. Act. Pr. 17, in Verr. ii.
They proposed an unconditional surrender of their 1,9, Pseudo-Ascon. in Act. I. Verr. p. 149, in Act.
nation to the faith of Rome. " The term was 11. Verr. p. 165, Orelli. ) For the Lex Caecilia
ambiguous ; Glabrio put the strictest interpretation mentioned by Valerius Maximus (vi. 9. ♡ 10), we
upon it (comp. Liv. vii. 31), and when the envoys should probably read Lex Acilia (Dict. of Antiq.
remonstrated, threatened them with chains and the s. v. Repetundae. )
dungeon. His officers reminded Glabrio that their 5. M'. Acilius M. f. M. N. GLABRIO, son of
character as ambassadors was sacred, and he con- the preceding and of Mucia, a daughter of P.
sented to grant the Aetolians a truce of ten days. Mucius Scaevola, consul in B. c. 133. He married
During that time, however, the Aetolians received a daughter of M. Aemilius Scaurus, consul in B. C.
intelligence that Antiochus was preparing to renew | 115 (Cic. in Verr. i 17), whom Sulla, in B. C. 82,
the war. They concentrated their forces therefore compelled him to divorce. (Plut. Sull. 33, Pomp.
at Naupactus, in the Corinthian gulf, and Glabrio 9. ) Glabrio was praetor urbanus in B. c. 70, when
hastened to invest the place. (Polyb. xx. 9, 10; he presided at the impeachment of Verres. (Cic. in
Liv. xxxvi. 28. ) His march from Lamia to Nau-Verr. i. 2. ) Cicero was anxious to bring on the
pactus lay over the highest ridge of Oeta ; a trial of Verres during the praetorship of Glabrio
3
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GLAUCIA.
&
1
(16. 18; Pseudo-Ascon. in Verr. argum, p. 125, during the civil wars, he, in return, was serviceable
Orelli), whose conduct in the preliminaries and the to his former advocate (Cic. ad Fam. vii. 30, 31).
presidency of the judicium he commends (in Verr. In Cic. ad Fam. xii. 50, some editors read, for Aucto,
Act. ii. v. 29, 63), and describes him as active in Acilio, and refer it to this Glabrio. (Orelli, Onom.
his judicial functions and careful of his reputation Tull. p. 7. )
(in Verr. i. 10, 14), although, in a later work 7. M'. ' ACILIUS GLABRIO, was consul with
(Brut. 68), he says that Glabrio's natural indo-Trajan in A. D. 91. The auguries which promised
lence marred the good education be had received Trajan the empire, predicted death to his colleague
from his grandfather Scaevola. Glabrio was consul in the consulship. To gain the favour of Domitian,
with C. Čalpurnius l'iso in B. C. 67, and in the fold Glabrio fought as a gladiator in the amphitheatre
lowing year proconsul of Cilicia (Schol. Gronov.
city. Gisco and his fellow-prisoners remained in GI'TIADAS (ritiáðas), a Lacedaemonian ar-
captivity for some time, until Spendius and Matho, chitect, statuary, and poet. He completed the
alarmed at the successes of Hamilcar Barca, and temple of Athena Poliouchos at Sparta, and orna.
Apprehensive of the effects which the lenity he had mented it with works in bronze, from which it was
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GITIADAS.
GLABRIO.
.
called the Brazen House, and hence the goddess the way in which Gitiadas is mentioned with Cal-
received the surname of Xa KOOTKOS. Gitiadas lon by Pausanias that he was his contemporary, and
made for this temple the statue of the goddess and he therefore flourished about B. c. 516. (CALLON. )
other works in bronze (most, if not all of which, He is the last Spartan artist of any distinction.
seem to have been bas-reliefs on the walls), repre His teacher is unknown; but, as he flourished
Renting the labours of Heracles, the exploits of the in the next generation but one after Dipoenus and
Tyndarids, Hephaestus releasing his mother from Scyllis, he may have learnt his art from one of
her chains, the Nymphs arming Perseus for his their pupils ; perhaps from Theodorus of Samos,
expedition against Medusa, the Birth of Athena, and who lived a considerable time at Sparta (Hirt.
A. mphitrite and Poseidon. The artist also served Gesch, d. Bild. Kennt. p. 108. )
(P. S. )
the goddess as a poet, for he composed a hymn to GLABER, P. VARI'NIUS, praetor, B. c. 73.
her, besides other poems, in the Doric dialect. He was among the first of the Roman generals
(Paus. iii. 17. $ 3. )
sent agninst the gladiator Spartacus (SPARTACUS),
Gitiadas also made two of the three bronze tri- and both in his own movements and in those of his
pods at Amyclae. The third was the work of lieutenants he was singularly unfortunate. Spar-
Callon, the Aeginetan. The two by Gitiadas were tacus repeatedly defeated Glaber, and once captured
supported by statues of Aphrodite and Artemis his war-horse and his lictors. But, although com-
(Paus. iii. 18. § 5). This last passage has been missioned by the senate to put down the insurrec-
misinterpreted in two different ways, namely, as if tion of the slaves, Glaber had only a hastily levied
it placed the date of Gitiadas, on the one hand, as army to oppose to Spartacus, and a sickly autumn
high as the first or second Messenian War, or, on thinned its ranks. (Appian, B. C. i. 116; Plut
the other hand, as low as the end of the Pelopon- Crass. 9 ; Frontin. Stral. i. 5. 9 22. ) Florus (iii.
nesian War. The true meaning of Pausanias has 20) mentions a Clodius Glaber; compare, however,
been explained by Müller (Aeginet. p. 100), and Plutarch (l. c. ).
(W. B. D. )
Thiersch (Epochen, p. 146, &c. , Anmerk. p. 40, GLA'BRIO, a family name of the Acilia Gens
&c. ; comp. Hirt, in the Amalthea, vol. i. p. 260). at Rome. The Acilii Glabriones were plebeian
The passage may be thus translated :-“But, as to (Liv. xxxv. 10, 24, xxxvi. 57), and first appear on
the things worth seeing at Amyclae, there is upon the consular Fasti in the year B. c. 191, from which
a pillar a pentathlete, by name Aenetus.
time the name frequently occurs to a late period of
of him, then, there is an image and bronze tri- the empire. The last of the Glabriones who held
pods. (But as for the other more ancient tripods, the consulate was Anicius Acilius Glabrio Faustus,
they are said to be a tithe* from the war against one of the supplementary consuls in a. D. 438.
the Messenians. ) Under the first tripod stands an 1. C. Acilius GLABRIO, was quaestor in B. C.
image of Aphrodite, but Artemis under the second : 203, and tribune of the plebs in 197, when he
both the tripods themselves and what is wrought brought forward a rogation for planting five colo.
upon them are the work of Gitiadas : but the third nies on the western coast of Italy, in order pro-
is the work of the Aeginetan Callon : but under bably to repair the depopulation caused by the war
this stands an image of Cora, the daughter of De- with Hannibal. (Liv. xxxii. 29. ) Glabrio acted
meter. But Aristander, the Parian, and Polyclei- as interpreter to the Athenian embassy in B. C.
tus, the Argive, made (other tripods] ; the former 155, when the three philosophers, Carneades, Dio-
a woman holding a lyre, namely, Sparta ; but genes, and Critolaus came as envoys to Rome.
Polycleitus made Aphrodite, surnamed the Amy- (Carneades. ] (Gell. vii. 14 ; Plut. Cat. Maj. 22;
claean. ' But these last tripods exceed the others Macrob. Sat. i. 5. ) Glabrio was at this time ad-
in size, and were dedicated from the spoils of the vanced in years, of senatorian rank ; and Plutarch
victory at Aegospotami. ” That is, there were at calls him a distinguished senator (l. c. ). He wrote
Amyclae three sets of tripods, first, those made in Greek a history of Rome from the earliest
from the spoils of the (first or second) Messenian period to his own times. This work is cited by
War, which Pausanias only mentions parenthe Dionysius (iii. 77), by Cicero (de Off. ii. 32), by
tically ; then, those which, with the statue, formed Plutarch (Romul. 21), and by the author de Orig.
the monument of the Olympic victor Aenetus, made Gent. Rom. (c. 10. 82). It was translated into Latin
by Gitiadas and Callon; and, lastly, those made by by one Claudius, and his version is cited by Livy,
Aristander and Polycleitus out of the spoils of the under the titles of Annales Aciliani (xxv. 39) and
battle of Aegospotami. But in another passage Libri Aciliani (xxxv. 14). We perhaps read a
(iv. 14. $ 2), Pausanias appears to say distinctly passage borrowed or adapted from the work of Gla-
that the tripods at Amyclae, which were adorned brio in Appian (Syriac. 10). Atilius Fortunati-
with the images of Aphrodite, Artemis, and Cora, anus (de Art. Metric. p. 2680, ed. Putsch) ascribes
were dedicated by the Lacedaemonians at the end the Saturnian verse
of the first Messenian War. There can, however,
be little doubt that the words from 'Αφροδίτης
" Fundit, fugat, prosternit maximas legiones,"
to evtavla, are the gloss (which afterwards crept to an Acilius Glabrio. (Krause, Vet. Hist. Rom.
into the text) of some commentator who misunder- Fragm. p. 84. )
stood the former passage. Another argument that 2. M'. Acilius, C. F. L. N. GLABRIO, was tri-
Gitiadas cannot be placed nearly so high as the first bune of the plebs in B. C. 201, when he opposed
Messenian War is derived from the statement of claim of Cn. Corn. Lentulus, one of the consuls of
Pausanias (iii. 17. & 6) that the Zeus of Learchus that year, to the province of Africa, which a
of Rhegium was the oldest work in bronze at unanimous vote of the tribes had already decreed
Sparta.
to P. Scipio Africanus I. (Liv. xxx. 40. ) In the
These difficulties being removed, it is clear from following year Glabrio was appointed commissioner
of sacred rites (decemvir sacrorum) in the room of
* According to the reading of Jacobs and Bek- M. Aurelius Cotta, deceased (xxxi. 50). He was
ker, δεκάτην for δέκα,
praetor in B. c. 196, having presided at the Ple
:
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271
GLABRIO.
beian Games in the Flaminian Circus ; and from handful of men might have held it against tho
the fines for encroachment on the demesne lands whole consular army. But the difficulties of the
he consecrated bronze statues to Ceres and her off-road were all that Glabrio had to contend with, so
spring Liber and Libera (xxxiii. 25, comp. iii. 55 ; completely had bis stern demeanour and his re
Cic. de Nat. Deor. ii. 24) at the end of 197. peated victories quelled the spirit of the Aetolians.
Glabrio was praetor peregrinus (Liv. xxxiii. 24, 26), Naupactus was on the point of surrendering to
and quelled an insurrection of the praedial slaves Glabrio, but it was rescued by the intercession of
in Etruria, which was so formidable as to require the proconsul, T. Quintius Flamininus, and the be-
the presence of one of the city legions. (Liv. xxxiii. sieged were permitted to send an embassy to Rome.
36. ) In B. c. 193 he was an unsuccessful compe- After attending the congress of the Achaean cities
titor for the consulship, which, however, he ob- at Aegium, and a fruitless attenpt to procure a
tained in 191. (xxxv. 10, 24.
) In this year recal of the exiles to Elis and Sparta, Glabrio re-
Rome declared war against Antiochus the Great turned to Phocis, and blockaded Amphissa. While
king of Syria (ANTIOCHUS III. ]; and the com- yet engaged in the siege, his successor, L. Cor.
mencement of hostilities with the most powerful nelius Scipio, arrived from Rome, and Glabrio
monarch of Asia was thought to demand unusual gave up to him the command. (Polyb. xxi. 1,2;
religious solemnities. In the allotment of the pro- | Liv. xxxvi. 35, xxxvii. 6; Appian, Syr. 21. ) A
vinces, Greece, the seat of war, fell to Glabrio ; triumph was unanimously granted to Glabrio, but
but before he took the field he was directed by the its unusual splendour was somewhat abated by the
senate to superintend the sacred ceremonies and absence of his conquering army, which remained
processions, and to vow, if the campaign were pro- in Greece. He triumphed in the autumn of B. C.
sperous, extraordinary games to Jupiter, and offer- 190. “De Aetoleis et rege Syriae Antiocho. "
ings to all the shrines in Rome. (Liv. xxxvi. Glabrio was a candidate for the censorship in B. C.
1, 2. )
189. But the party of the nobles which, in 192, had
Glabrio, to whom the senate had assigned, be excluded him from the consulship, again prevailed.
sides the usual consular army of two legions, the It was rumoured that a part of the rich booty of
troops already quartered in Greece and Macedonia, the Syrian camp, which had not been displayed at
appointed the month of May and the city of Brun- his triumph, might be found in his house. The
disium as the time and place of rendezvous. From testimony of his legatus, M. Porcius Cato, was
thence he crossed over to Apollonia, at the head unfavourable to him, and Glabrio withdrew from
of 10,000 foot, 2,000 horse, and 15 elephants, an impeachment of the tribunes of the plebs, under
with power, if needful, to levy in Greece an addi- the decent pretext of yielding to a powerful faction.
tional force of 5000 men. (Liv. xxxvi. 14; Appian. (Liv. xxxvii. 57; Plut. Cat. Maj. 12, 13, 14;
Syr. 17. ) He made Larissa in Thessaly his head- Flor. ii. 8. § 10; Aur. Vict. Vir. IUustr. 47, 54 ;
quarters, from which, in co-operation with his ally, Front. Strat. i. 4. § 4; Eutrop. iii. 4; Appian,
Philip II. , king of Macedonia, he speedily reduced Syr. 17-21. )
to obedience the whole district between the Cam- 3. M'. Acilius M'. P. C. N. GLABRIO, son of the
bunian mountain chain and mount Oeta Limnaea, preceding, dedicated, as duumvir under a decree of
Pellinaeum, Pharsalus, Pherae, and Scotussa, ex- the senate, B. c. 181, the Temple of Piety in the
pelled the garrisons of Antiochus, and his allies herb-market at Rome. The elder Glabrio had
the Athamanes ; Philip of Megalopolis, a pretender vowed this temple on the day of his engagement
to the crown of Macedonia, was sent in chains to with Antiochus at Thermopylae, and his son
Rome;
and Amynander, the king of the Atha- placed in it an equestrian statue of his father, the
manes, was driven from his kingdom. (Liv. , Ap- first gilt statue erected at Rome (Liv. xl. 34; Val.
pian, Il. cc. )
Max. ii. 5. 1). Glabrio was one of the curule
Antiochus, alarmed at Glabrio's progress, en- aediles in B. c. 165, when he superintended the
trenched himself strongly at Thermopylae ; but celebration of the Megalensian games (Terent
although his Aetolian allies occupied the passes of Andr. tit. fab. ), and supplementary consul in B. C.
mount Oeta, the Romans broke through his out-154, in the room of L. Postumius Albinus, who
posts, and cut to pieces or dispersed his army. died in his consular year. (Obseq. de Prod. 76 ;
Boeotia and Euboea next submitted to Glabrio : Fast. Capit. )
he reduced Lamia and Heracleia at the foot of Oeta 4. M'. Acilius Glabrio, tribune of the plebs.
and in the latter city took prisoner the Aetolian The date of his tribuneship is not ascertained. He
Damocritus, who the year before had threatened to brought forward and carried the lex Acilia de Re
bring the war to the banks of the Tiber. The petundis, which prohibited ampliatio and compe-
Aetolians now sent envoys to Glabrio at Lamia. rendinatio. (Cic. in Verr. Act. Pr. 17, in Verr. ii.
They proposed an unconditional surrender of their 1,9, Pseudo-Ascon. in Act. I. Verr. p. 149, in Act.
nation to the faith of Rome. " The term was 11. Verr. p. 165, Orelli. ) For the Lex Caecilia
ambiguous ; Glabrio put the strictest interpretation mentioned by Valerius Maximus (vi. 9. ♡ 10), we
upon it (comp. Liv. vii. 31), and when the envoys should probably read Lex Acilia (Dict. of Antiq.
remonstrated, threatened them with chains and the s. v. Repetundae. )
dungeon. His officers reminded Glabrio that their 5. M'. Acilius M. f. M. N. GLABRIO, son of
character as ambassadors was sacred, and he con- the preceding and of Mucia, a daughter of P.
sented to grant the Aetolians a truce of ten days. Mucius Scaevola, consul in B. c. 133. He married
During that time, however, the Aetolians received a daughter of M. Aemilius Scaurus, consul in B. C.
intelligence that Antiochus was preparing to renew | 115 (Cic. in Verr. i 17), whom Sulla, in B. C. 82,
the war. They concentrated their forces therefore compelled him to divorce. (Plut. Sull. 33, Pomp.
at Naupactus, in the Corinthian gulf, and Glabrio 9. ) Glabrio was praetor urbanus in B. c. 70, when
hastened to invest the place. (Polyb. xx. 9, 10; he presided at the impeachment of Verres. (Cic. in
Liv. xxxvi. 28. ) His march from Lamia to Nau-Verr. i. 2. ) Cicero was anxious to bring on the
pactus lay over the highest ridge of Oeta ; a trial of Verres during the praetorship of Glabrio
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(16. 18; Pseudo-Ascon. in Verr. argum, p. 125, during the civil wars, he, in return, was serviceable
Orelli), whose conduct in the preliminaries and the to his former advocate (Cic. ad Fam. vii. 30, 31).
presidency of the judicium he commends (in Verr. In Cic. ad Fam. xii. 50, some editors read, for Aucto,
Act. ii. v. 29, 63), and describes him as active in Acilio, and refer it to this Glabrio. (Orelli, Onom.
his judicial functions and careful of his reputation Tull. p. 7. )
(in Verr. i. 10, 14), although, in a later work 7. M'. ' ACILIUS GLABRIO, was consul with
(Brut. 68), he says that Glabrio's natural indo-Trajan in A. D. 91. The auguries which promised
lence marred the good education be had received Trajan the empire, predicted death to his colleague
from his grandfather Scaevola. Glabrio was consul in the consulship. To gain the favour of Domitian,
with C. Čalpurnius l'iso in B. C. 67, and in the fold Glabrio fought as a gladiator in the amphitheatre
lowing year proconsul of Cilicia (Schol. Gronov.
