Aviola

the name of a family of the Acilia gens, which is not mentioned till the very end of the republic.

1. M';. Acilius Aviola, consul suffectus in B. C. 33, from the 1st of July, is probably the same Aviola who is said to have come to life again on the funeral pile, when it was supposed that he was dead, but to have been nevertheless burnt to death, because the flames could not be extinguished. (Plin. Nat. 7.52. s. 53; V. Max. 1.8.12.)

2. Acilius Aviola, legate of Gallia Lugdunensis under Tiberius, put down an outbreak of the Andecavi and Turonii, in A. D. 21. (Tac. Ann. 3.41.)

3. M'. Acilius Aviola, consul in the last year of the reign of Claudius, A. D. 54. (Tac. Ann. 12.64; Suet. Cl. 45.)