Branches and Cognomina of The Gens
The three main branches of the Acilii bore the cognomina Aviola, Balbus, and Glabrio. The Glabriones were the first family to appear in history, and they continued the longest. Both they and the Balbi are were certainly plebeian, as many of them were tribunes of the plebs. A tomb of the Acilii Glabriones was found in Rome in 1888. The Glabriones also had a garden, the Horti Aciliorum, on the Pincian Hill in the 2nd century.
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