Thank you, Drusus: a good question.

But I'm not going to pose one, myself, until I better understand why Strabo answered the way he did. Manius Acilius Glabrio was consul in 67 BC and did fight against Mithradates VI, but he was completely ineffectual and superseded by Pompey. Diodorus Siculus, Appian, and Cicero all refer to Acilius but I don't have access to these citations.

There can't have been that many Romans who died by having molten gold poured down their throats. Crassus is one, Aquilius another. But Glabrio being killed in the same way in the Third Mithradatic War? That scamp Strabo, I suspect, was trying to entice me into swooping by the answer he gave and properly should ask the next question, which will be better than mine, in any event.