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 & . 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)