Acilia (gens)

The gens Acilia was a Roman family, or gens, that flourished from the middle of the third century BC until at least the fifth century AD, a period of seven hundred years. It was probably of plebeian origin, and the first two branches, or stirpes to appear were certainly plebeian. The first member of the gens to achieve prominence was Gaius Acilius Glabrio, who was quaestor in 203 and tribune of the plebs in 197 BC.[1]

Praenomina

The Acilii were particularly fond of the praenomina Manius, which they used more than any other. They also used the names Gaius, Lucius, Caeso, and Marcus.[1]

Branches and cognomina

The three main branches of the Acilii bore the cognomina Aviola, Balbus, and Glabrio. The Glabriones were the first family to appear in history, and they continued the longest. Both they and the Balbi were were certainly plebeian, as many of them were tribunes of the plebs. A tomb of the Acilii Glabriones was found in Rome in 1888. The Glabriones also had a garden, the Horti Aciliorum, on the Pincian Hill in the 2nd century.[1]

Members

This list includes abbreviated praenomina. For an explanation of this practice, see filiation.

Acilii Glabriones

Members of this family have been identified from the Third century BC into the Fifth century AD. As Fergus Millar observed, "The one indubitable case of continuity from the republic to the fourth century is the Acilii Glabriones."[2]

Acilii Balbi

Acilii Aviolae

Others

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, William Smith, Editor
  2. ↑ Millar, The Emperor in the Roman World (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992), p. 341 n. 1
  3. ↑ Marcus Tullius Cicero, In Verrem, Act. Pr. 17, ii. 1, 9.
  4. ↑ Pseudo-Asconius, in Act. I. Verr. p. 149, in Act. II. Verr. p. 165, ed. Orelli.
  5. ↑ Herodian 2.3.4
  6. ↑ Werner Eck, "Zu lateinischen Inschriften aus Caesarea in Iudaea/Syria Palaestina", Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 113 (1996), pp. 129-143
  7. ↑ Hagith Sivan, "A Late Gallic Branch of the Acilii Glabriones? Notes on Ausonius' 'Professores' 24 (Peiper)", Mnemosyne, Fourth Series, 44 (1991), pp. 435-439
  8. 1 2 3 Alan Cameron, "Anician Myths", Journal of Roman Studies, 102 (2012), p. 150
  9. ↑ Elimar Klebs, "Acilius 15", in Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft, Band I,1 (1893), Sp. 252–253
  10. 1 2 Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, William Smith, Editor (s. v. M. Annaeus Mela).
  11. ↑ Paul von Rohden, "Acilius 52", Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft, Band I,1 (1893), Sp. 259

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