Spurius Postumius Albinus Magnus
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- For other persons with the cognomen "Albus" or "Albinus", see Albinus (cognomen).
Spurius Postumius Albinus Magnus was a politician of ancient Rome, of patrician rank, of the 2nd century BC.[1] He was consul in 148 BC, in which year a great fire happened at Rome.[2] It is this Spurius Albinus of whom Cicero speaks in the Brutus, and says that there were many orations of his.[3]
He was probably the father of Spurius Postumius Albinus and Aulus Postimius Albinus.
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- ^ Smith, William (1867), "Spurius Postumius Albinus Magnus (19)", in Smith, William, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, 1, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, pp. 92, http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0101.html
- ^ Julius Obsequens, 78
- ^ Cicero, Brutus c. 25
| Preceded by Lucius Marcius Censorinus and Manius Manilius |
Consul of the Roman Republic with Lucius Calpurnius Piso Caesoninus 148 BC |
Succeeded by Scipio Aemilianus Africanus and Gaius Livius Drusus |
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1867). "article name needed". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.
