Aciform

[Lat. acus, needle, and form a, shape.] Shaped like a needle. Acilius Glabrio, a Roman consul, of plebeian origin, B. C. 191. Sent against Antiochus, king of Syria, he was victorious, and on his return he had a triumph. He was the first to whom a statue of gold was erected in Italy. Accused by the Patricians of keeping back the public spoils, he succeeded in escaping condemnation. His "Annals of Rome," written in Greek, are full of fables. Another Acilius Glabrio , consul in the reign of Domitian, and put to death, on a charge of conspiracy, was remarkable only by his strength, having fought and killed a lion in the circus, without receiving a wound. Acina'ceo us, a. [Lat. acinus , a grape-stone.] Full of kernels.