Manius Acilius Glabrio (consul 191 BC)

Credible accusations that he had embezzled spoils from his conquests in Greece while consul caused him to withdraw from his attempt to run for censor, after which he largely retired from public life.

A series of disputes had led the Aetolian League to invite the Seleucid emperor Antiochus III to liberate, in their framing, Greece from Roman domination; this was a view little shared by other Greeks, who after the Second Macedonian War had largely been left to their own affairs.

[10][11] In September, the former consul Titus Quinctius Flamininus—the chief victor of the Second Macedonian War—was approached to seek a truce, allowing the Aetolians to send embassies to Rome to negotiate a peace agreement.

[11] This was necessary because the calendar was sometimes manipulated by the Senate for political ends, speeding or delaying elections or limiting or extending terms in office, and could fall far out of sync with the seasons.

He was, however, accused by the plebeian tribunes of having concealed a portion of the Greek spoils in his own house and, after one of his legates gave evidence against him, he withdrew from the race[17] and, on the basis of surviving records, seems to have withdrawn almost entirely from public life.

[18] Following his victory at Thermopylae, Acilius Glabrio made a sacred vow to establish a temple dedicated to piety (pietas) in Rome.

This Temple of Piety stood at the northern end of the Forum Olitorium, the Roman vegetable market, until it was demolished by Julius Caesar to make way for what would eventually become the Theater of Marcellus.

[3] Other descendants served as consul in the Late Republic and the Imperial Age, and the Acilii Glabriones have been described as the very longest-lived clan in ancient Roman politics.