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Aulus Postumius Albus Regillensis (consul 464 BC)

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Aulus Postumius Albus Regillensis
Consul of the Roman Republic
In office
1 August 464 BC [1] – 31 July 463 BC
Preceded byQuintus Fabius Vibulanus, Titus Quinctius Capitolinus Barbatus
Succeeded byPublius Servilius Priscus Structus (consul 463 BC), Lucius Aebutius Elva
Personal details
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Ancient Rome
DiedUnknown
Ancient Rome

Aulus Postumius Albus Regillensis was a patrician politician of ancient Rome, and apparently son of Aulus Postumius Albus Regillensis, and therefore brother of Spurius Postumius Albus Regillensis.[2] He, or possibly his brother Spurius, was appointed to dedicate the Temple of Castor in 484 BC as duumviri aedi dedicandae.[3][4]

He was consul in 464 BC, carried on war against the Aequians, and protected the border from raiders.[5]

He (or his brother Spurius) was either a augur or pontifex as gathered from an inscription saying that he co-opted the year in 462 BC, a role traditionally ascribed to one of these posts.[6][7]

Before the Battle of Mount Algidus he was sent as ambassador, along with Quintus Fabius Vibulanus and Publius Volumnius Amintinus Gallus, to the Aequians in 458 BC, on which occasion he was insulted by their commander, who told him to take Rome's entreaties and tell them to an oak tree.[8][9]

See also

References

  1. ^ Robert Maxwell Ogilvie, Commentary on Livy, books 1–5, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1965, pp. 404, 405.
  2. ^ Smith, William (1867), "Aulus Postumius Albus Regillensis (3)", in Smith, William (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. 1, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, p. 91
  3. ^ Livy. ii. 42.5
  4. ^ Broughton, vol i, pp.22
  5. ^ T. Robert S. Broughton: The Magistrates Of The Roman Republic. Vol. 1: 509 B.C. - 100 B.C.. Cleveland / Ohio: Case Western Reserve University Press, 1951. Reprint 1968. (Philological Monographs. Edited by the American Philological Association. Vol. 15, 1), p.34
  6. ^ H. Dessau, Inscriptiones Latinae Selectae, 9338, 2
  7. ^ Broughton, vol i, pp.36
  8. ^ Livy, iii. 4, 5, 25
  9. ^ Dionysius of Halicarnassus, ix. 62, 65

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainSmith, William, ed. (1870). "Albinus (3)". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. p. 91.

Political offices
Preceded by Consul of the Roman Republic
with Spurius Furius Medullinus Fusus
464 BC
Succeeded by