Gentilicium of a plebeian gens, verifiable from the 3rd cent. BC. The most important branches are the Aviolae (imperial era), Balbi and especially the Glabriones, who are documented from the 3rd cent. BC to the end of the 5th cent. AD [1]. In Rome there was a compitum Acilium, on which the first Greek doctor in Rome was settled in 219 (Plin. HN 29,12 [2. 98]), on the Pincio the horti Aciliorum, in the imperial era the most famous gardens of Rome [2. 195 f.; 3. 488 ff.].
Acilius(1,410 words)
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Elvers, Karl-Ludwig (Bochum), Kierdorf, Wilhelm (Cologne), Will, Wolfgang (Bonn) and Eck, Werner (Cologne), “Acilius”, in: Brill’s New Pauly, Antiquity volumes edited by: Hubert Cancik and , Helmuth Schneider, English Edition by: Christine F. Salazar, Classical Tradition volumes edited by: Manfred Landfester, English Edition by: Francis G. Gentry. Consulted online on 22 March 2023 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1574-9347_bnp_e102460>
First published online: 2006
First print edition: 9789004122598, 20110510
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