Acilii

Synonymous : Acilius is also a kind of Coléoptère of the family of the Dytiscidae

Acilius was the nomen of a former Roman family, the people Acilia , whose branches of the family included the Acilii Balbi and the Acilii Glabriones (a tomb of this last branch was found with Rome in 1888). The Glabriones had a famous garden it ( Horti Aciliorum ) on the Pincio at the 2nd century.

Its most known members, are:

Under the republic

Manius Acilius Glabrio, consul in -191 with P. Scipion Nasica: it gained over Antiochus, king de Syrie, the battle of the Thermopyles, and subjected the Étolie;
Gaius Acilius, senator and historian, towards -155
Manius Acilius Balbus, consul in -150 and -114
Manius Acilius Balbus, consuls in 114 A.C.
Manius Acilius Faustinus
Manius Acilius Aviola, consul in -70, which carried a law of repetundis pecuniis against the guilty of misappropriation ones.
Manius Acilius Glabrio, consul -67, nephew of the lawyer Publius Mucius Scaevola,
Manius Acilius Caninus, lieutenant of César

Under the empire

Manius Acilius Aviola, consul in 54
Manius Acilius Glabrio, consul in 91, during the principat of Domitien, carried out to have embraced the Christian faith
Manius Acilius Rufus, consul suffect in 102
Publius Acilius Attianus, to advise Hadrian
Manius Acilius Aviola, consul in 122.
Manius Acilius Glabrio, consul in 124
Manius Acilius Glabrio, consul in 186, during the Convenient principat of
Acilius Glabrio senator with Pertinax 193
Manius Acilius Faustinus, consul in 210
Manius Acilius Aviola, consul in 239
Manius Acilius Auréolus, general
Marcus Acilius Glabrio, consul in 256
Acilius Severus, Anicius Acilius Glabrio Faustus
Anicius Acilius Glabrio Faustus, consul in 438
Anicius Acilius Aginatius Faustus, consul in 483

There was also a Acilius which was the first Christian named prefect of Rome in 325

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