M. F. M. N. GLABRIO, son of the preceding and of Mucia, a daaghter of P. Mucius Scaevola,
consul in in Verr. 1.17), whom
Sulla, in Pomp. 9.) Glabrio was praetor
urbanus in in Verr. 1.2.) Cicero was anxious to bring on the trial of Verres
during the praetorship of Glabrio Ib. 18; Pseudo-Ascon.
in Verr. argum. p. 125, Orelli), whose conduct in the preliminaries and
the presidency of the judicium he commends (in Verr. Act. 2.5.29, 63),
and describes him as active in his judicial functions and careful of his reputation (in Verr. 1.10, 14), although, in a later work (Brut.
68), he says that Glabrio's natural indolence marred the good education he had received from
his grandfather Scaevola. Glabrio was consul with C. Calpurnius Piso in in Cic. pro Leg. Man. pp. 438, 442, Orelli), to which, by the Gabinian law [GABINIUS], Bithynia and Pontus were added. (Sall. Hist. v. p. 243, ed. Gerlach; pro Leg. Man. 2.5), but his
military career was not answerable to his civil reputation. Glabrio hurried to the East,
thinking that Mithridates was already conquered, and that he should obtain an easy triumph.
But when, instead of a vanquished enemy, he found a mutinous army and an arduous campaign
awaiting him, he remained inactive within the frontiers of Bithynia. (pro Leg. Man. l.c.) Glabrio was indeed worse than
inefficient. He directly fomented the insubordination in the legions of Lucullus by issuing,
soon after his arrival in Asia, a proclamation releasing Lucullus's soldiers from their
military obedience to him, and menacing them with punishment if they continued under his
command. (pro Leg. Man. 9), who allowed Mithridates to ravage
Cappadocia, and to regain the greater portion of the provinces which the Romans had stripped
him of. (Dio Cass. l.c.) Glabrio was himself superseded by Cn. Pompey, as
soon as the Manilian law had transferred to him the war in the East. In the debate on the doom
of Catiline's accomplices in December, Phil. 2.5). He was a member of the college of pontiffs in
Har. Resp. 6, ad
Q.fr. 2.1.)