Gaius Vibius Postumus

Gaius Vibius Postumus was a Roman senator, who flourished under the reign of Augustus. He was suffect consul for the latter half of AD 5 with Gaius Ateius Capito as his colleague.^[1] Ronald Syme identifies him as a novus homo from Lavinum in Apulia.^[2]

Postumus shared in the achievements of Lucius Apronius and earned the ornamenta triumphalia for his distinguished valor in the Dalmatian revolt.^[3] He was also proconsular governor of Asia in the years 12-15.^[4] One of the poems of the Palatine Anthology, attributed to Apollonides, refers to the construction of a temple to Aphrodite by a Postumus; Syme identifies its author as Apollonides of Nicaea, and the person responsible for the temple as Vibius Postumus, who had the temple erected during his governorship.^[5]

References

^ Alison E. Cooley, The Cambridge Manual of Latin Epigraphy (Cambridge: University Press, 2012), p. 458
^ Syme, The Augustan Aristocracy (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986), p. 427
^ Velleius Paterculus, Roman History, II.116
^ Syme, Augustan Aristocracy, p. 312
^ Syme, Augustan Aristocracy, p. 379

Political offices
Preceded by Lucius Valerius Messalla Volesus, and Gnaeus Cornelius Cinna Magnus as Ordinary consuls	Suffect consul of the Roman Empire AD 5 with Gaius Ateius Capito	Succeeded by Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, and Lucius Arruntius the Younger as Ordinary consuls

[1] Alison E. Cooley, The Cambridge Manual of Latin Epigraphy (Cambridge: University Press, 2012), p. 458

[2] Syme, The Augustan Aristocracy (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986), p. 427

[3] Velleius Paterculus, Roman History, II.116

[4] Syme, Augustan Aristocracy, p. 312

[5] Syme, Augustan Aristocracy, p. 379

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