Glabrio

A family name of the Acilia gens at Rome. The Acilii Glabriones were plebeian, and first appear on the consular annals in 191 B.C. , from which time the name frequently occurs to a late period of the empire. M. Acilius Glabrio, the most distinguished of the family, became consul in 191 B.C. In that year Rome declared war against Antiochus the Great, king of Syria. Glabrio was sent against him, and with the aid of his ally, Philip II., king of Macedonia, he speedily reduced to obedience the whole district between the Cambunian mountain-chain and Mount Œta. Antiochus, alarmed at Glabrio’s progre , intrenched himself strongly at Thermopylæ; but, although his Ætolian allies occupied the pa es of Mount Œta, the Romans broke through his outposts, and cut to pieces or dispersed his army. Glabrio was engaged in the siege of Amphi a, when his succe or, L. Cornel i us Scipio, arrived from Rome and relieved him from command. He was unanimously granted a triumph on his return to Rome.