Spurius Postumius Albinus Magnus

For other people with similar names, see Spurius Postumius.

Spurius Postumius Albinus Magnus was a politician of ancient Rome, of patrician rank, during 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]

Children

Based on their filiations, he was probably the father of the consuls Spurius Postumius Albinus and Aulus Postumius Albinus.

See also

References

  1. ^ Smith, William (1867), "Spurius Postumius Albinus Magnus (19)", in Smith, William (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. 1, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, p. 92
  2. ^ Julius Obsequens, 78
  3. ^ Cicero, Brutus c. 25

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). "Albinus (19)". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. p. 92.

Political offices
Preceded by Roman consul
148 BC
with Lucius Calpurnius Piso Caesoninus 		Succeeded by