Manius Acilius Glabrio, Roman

Roman Empire

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 statesman and general, grandson of the famous jurist P. Mucius Scaevola.

When praetor

Praetor

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 urbanus (70 BC) he presided at the trial of Verres

Verres

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. According to Dio Cassius

Dio Cassius

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 (xxxvi. 38), in conjunction with L. Calpurnius Piso

Lucius Calpurnius Piso Caesoninus

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, his colleague in the consulship (67), he brought forward a severe law (Lex Acilia Calpurnia) against illegal canvassing

Canvassing

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 at elections.

In the same year he was appointed to succeed Lucius Licinius Lucullus

Lucullus

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 in the government of Cilicia

Cilicia

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 and the command of the war against Mithradates

Mithridates VI of Pontus

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. He wrecked Roman control of the region because he released Lucullus's soldiers from his command, but he himself was unable to control the soldiery and was in turn replaced by Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus

Pompey

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 according to the provisions of the lex Manilia. Little else is known of him except that he declared in favour of the death punishment for the Catilinarian conspirators.

Dio Cassius xxxvi. 14, 16. 24; Cicero

Cicero

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, Pro lege Manilia, 2. 9; Appian, Mithrid. 90.