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Spurius Postumius Albinus Regillensis

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Spurius Postumius Albinus Regillensis was a Roman politician, of patrician family, of the early 4th century BC.[1] He was elected a military consular tribune in 394 BC, and carried on the war against the Aequians. He at first suffered a bloody defeat, after which rumours reached Rome that he had been killed and his forces destroyed near Tusculum. But the news of his defeat had been overstated, and Postumius and his men afterwards conquered the Aequian force, completely wiping them out.[2]

See also

References

  1. ^ Smith, William (1867), "Spurius Postumius Albinus Regillensis (8)", in Smith, William (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. 1, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, p. 91
  2. ^ Livy, v. 26, 28

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainSmith, William, ed. (1870). "Spurius Postumius Albinus Regillensis (8)". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.


Political offices
Preceded byas Consular Tribunes of the Roman Republic Consular Tribune of the Roman Republic
394
with Marcus Furius Camillus III,
Lucius Valerius Potitus Poplicola,
Lucius Furius Medullinus VI,
Gaius Aemilius Mamercinus,
and Publius Cornelius Scipio II
Succeeded byas Consuls of the Roman Republic