Aulus Postumius Albinus (consul 99 BC)
Aulus Postumius Albinus was a politician of the Roman Republic, and consul in 99 BC with Marcus Antonius.[2][3] Aulus Gellius quotes the words of a senatus consultum passed in their consulship in consequence of the spears of Mars having moved.[4] Cicero mentions him as being a good orator.[5]

Fantasy portrait of Aulus Albinus from Guillaume Rouillé's Promptuarii Iconum Insigniorum

This coin is supposed by Joseph Hilarius Eckhel and others to refer to this Albinus. One side is a woman's head with the letters "HISPAN", perhaps a reference to his ancestor L. Albinus. The other side has a man and an eagle, a military standard; behind him the fasces with the axe, and the letters "A. POST. ABIN" (instead of "ALBIN").[1]
- For other persons with the cognomen "Albus" or "Albinus", see Albinus (cognomen).
He was the grandson of Spurius Postumius Albinus Magnus, and probably son of Aulus Postumius Albinus.[6] He is probably the same man as the Aulus Postumius Albinus who was killed by his own men during the siege of Pompeii.[7] He was also the adoptive father of Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus, one of Julius Caesar's assassins (from whom Decimus Brutus adopted the name of Albinus).
See also
- Postumia (gens)
References
- Joseph Hilarius Eckhel, vol. v. p. 288
- Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia viii. 7
- Julius Obsequens, 106
- Aulus Gellius, iv. 6
- Cicero, Brutus 35, Post Reditum in Quirites 5
- Smith, William (1867), "Aulus Postumius Albinus (22)", in Smith, William (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, 1, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, pp. 92–93
- Broughton, T.R.S. (1952), Magistrates of the Roman Republic, 2, New York: American Philological Association, pp. 1, 37
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Preceded by Lucius Valerius Flaccus, and Gaius Marius |
Consul of the Roman Republic with Marcus Antonius 99 BC |
Succeeded by Quintus Caecilius Metellus Nepos, and Titus Didius |
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