C. Acilius Glabrio
was quaestor in B. C. 203, and tribune of the plebs in 197, when he brought forward a rogation for planting five colonies on the western coast of Italy, in order probably to repair the depopulation caused by the war with Hannibal. (
Liv. 32.29.) Glabrio acted as interpreter to the Athenian embassy in B. C. 155, when the three philosophers, Carneades, Diogenes, and Critolaus came as envoys to Rome. [
CARNEADES.] (
Gel. 7.14;
Plut. Cat. Ma. 22;
Macr. 1.5.) Glabrio was at this time advanced in years, of senatorian rank; and Plutarch calls him a distinguished senator (
l.c.).
Works
Greek History of Rome
He wrote in Greek a history of Rome from the earliest period to his own times.
This work is cited by Dionysius (
3.77), by Cicero (
de Off. 3.32), by Plutarch (
Romul. 21), and by the author
de Orig. Gent. Rom. ( 10.2).
It was translated into Latin by one Claudius, and his version is cited by Livy, under the titles of Annales Aciliani (25.39) and Libri Aciliani (35.14). We perhaps read a passage borrowed or adapted from the work of Glabrio in Appian (
Syriac. 10).
Poetic fragment
Atilius Fortunatianus (
de Art. Metric. p. 2680, ed. Putsch) ascribes the Saturnian verse
Fundit, fugat, prosternit maximas legiones,
to an Acilius Glabrio.
Further Information
Krause,
Vet. Hist. Rom. Fragm. p. 84.
