Spurius Postumius Albinus Magnus

Roman senator and orator

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

  • Postumia gens

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
L. Marcius Censorinus
Manius Manilius
 Roman consul
148 BC
with Lucius Calpurnius Piso Caesoninus 		Succeeded by
Scipio Aemilianus
Gaius Livius Drusus