Manius Acilius Glabrio
Because there are only few and short sources about the history of the Roman Republic in the second half of the second century BC, we have to rely on suppositions as to which public offices Silanus held before his consulate. In 145 BC he was perhaps one of the three magistrates who administered the Roman mint. He is probably identical with the tribune of the people "Marcus Junius D. f.", who introduced in 124 or 123 BC a law against exploitative Roman governors ("lex Iunia"), which preceded the "lex Acilia repetundarum" of the tribune Manius Acilius Glabrio (123 or 122 BC). In 113 or 112 BC Silanus was perhaps praetor in Spain.