Talk:Manius Acilius Glabrio (consul 91)

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Hypotheses that his father was the elderly "Acilius" named by Juvenal (iv.94); one authority believes "Acilius" was consul under Nero, specifically c. 54. (There are many gaps in the Fasti Consulares in those years.)
Source the story about Acilius Glabrio's incident wrestling a lion in the arena.
His wife is Arria Plaria Vera Priscilla, attested in CIL XI, 6333 & CIL VI, 31681. The second inscription was found near the Via Salaria. Werner Eck has published a study of at least one of these inscriptions -- Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 113 (1996), pp. 287ff
His son is considered to be the homonymous consul of 124. (I plan on writing the article if it can be filled out with more than genealogical details & the date of his consulship.)
Untangle the relationships between Acilius Glabrio's "atheism", his Christianity, the later legend of St. Priscilla, & possible connections. (My working theory is that he died either a traditional pagan, or at most dabbled in Judaism, & that the Acilii Glabriones, who survived into the 5th century & had come to embrace Christianity as had other Senatorial families, recast the story of his death in order to improve their social influence -- which is the likely reason the catacomb of Priscilla came to be associated with that family.) -- llywrch (talk) 18:37, 18 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]