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beian Games in the Flaminian Circus; and from handful of men might have held it against the
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 his stern demeanour and his reCic. de Nat. Deor. ii. 24) at the end of 197. peated victories quelled the spirit of the Aetolians.
Glabrio was prattor 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 bethe 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 attempt to procure a
tained in 191. (xxxv. 10, 24.) In this year recal of the exiles to Elis and Sparta, Glabrio reRome 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. Cormencement 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 front
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. Illustr. 47, 54 z
quarters, from which, in co-operation with his ally, Front. Strat. ii. 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'. F. C. N. GLABRIO, son of the
bunian mountain chain and mount Oeta. Limnaea, preceding, dedicated, as duumvir under a decree,f
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, II. 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 Rebring the war to the banks of the Tiber. The petundis, which prohibited ampliatio and compeAetolians now sent envoys to Glabrio at Lamia. rendinatio. (Cic. in MeVrr. 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 II. 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 IM. 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. 1 33. 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. (Plnt. 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. io
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