Digital Prosopography of the Roman Republic

POST1420 A. Postumius (31) A. f. A. n. Albinus

Status

  • Patrician

Life Dates

  • 195?, birth (Sumner Orators) Expand

    Sumner R27 (by 195), Evans & Kleijwegt (ca. 194/193).

Relationships

son of
? A. Postumius (46) A. f. A. n. Albinus? (Luscus) (cos. 180) (Badian 1990)
father of
? A. Postumius (33, cf. 32, 34) Albinus (cos. 99) (Zmeskal 2009)
? Sp. Postumius (45) Albinus (cos. 110) (Zmeskal 2009)

Career

  • Tribunus Militum 180 (Suolahti 1955) Expand
    • A.99 (Suolahti 1955)
  • Decemvir Sacris Faciundis before 168 to after 145 (Broughton MRR III) Expand
    • Cos. 151. Xvir s. f. The successor to L. Cornelius Lentulus in 173 as Xvir s. f., listed in MRR 1.410 as L. Postumius Albinus Luscus (46). Cos. 180, may very well have been his son, Cos. 151 (Sumner, Orators 48; cf. 42). Aed. cur. 159? Münzer, RE 22.1.903, offers a conjecture that this Postumius was curule aedile in 159. Leg., amb. 146-145. See MRR 1.467. Münzer suggests that the honors paid to him at Olympia (I. Olymp. 322) and at Delphi (SEG 1.152) indicate that he was senior member of the embassy. (Broughton MRR III)
  • Legatus (Envoy)? 168 (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • Selected by Paullus to negotiate the surrender of Perseus in Samothrace (Liv. 45.4.7). On the Postumii, see Lübker nos. 3 and 4. (Broughton MRR I)
  • Tribunus Militum 167 (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • Probably all or almost all the Tribunes of the Soldiers and the Lieutenants who served in Macedonia and Illyria continued until their respective commanders returned. (Broughton MRR I)
    • Received custody of King Perseus and his son (Liv. 45.28.11). See Lübker no. 4. (Broughton MRR I)
  • Aedilis Curulis c. 159 (Broughton MRR III) Expand
    • Cos. 151. Xvir s. f. The successor to L. Cornelius Lentulus in 173 as Xvir s. f., listed in MRR 1.410 as L. Postumius Albinus Luscus (46). Cos. 180, may very well have been his son, Cos. 151 (Sumner, Orators 48; cf. 42). Aed. cur. 159? Münzer, RE 22.1.903, offers a conjecture that this Postumius was curule aedile in 159. Leg., amb. 146-145. See MRR 1.467. Münzer suggests that the honors paid to him at Olympia (I. Olymp. 322) and at Delphi (SEG 1.152) indicate that he was senior member of the embassy. (Broughton MRR III)
  • Praetor 155 urbanus, Rome (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • Presided over the Senate when the Achaean exiles were refused release (Polyb. 33.1.5), and welcomed the embassy of philosophers from Athens concerning Oropus (Cic. Acad. 2.137; Gell. 6.14.8-10; Plut. Cat. Mai. 22-23). See Lübker no. 4. (Broughton MRR I)
    • p. 740, footnote 129 (Brennan 2000)
  • Legatus (Ambassador) 154 Asia (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • These finally ended the war between Prusias and Attalus, by compelling the former to pay an indemnity both to Attalus and to the Greek cities of Methymna, Aegae, Cyme, and Ionian Heracleia (Polyb. 33.13.4-10; cf. App. Mith. 3; L. Robert, Ét. Anat. 110-115). See Lübker no. 4. (Broughton MRR I)
    • On the succession of embassies from 156 to 154 caused by the hostilities between Prusias II of Bithynia and Attalus lI of Pergamum, see Chr. Habicht (Hermes 84, 1956, 90-116, and RE s. v. Prusias II), whose reordering of the relevant fragments of Polybius has been accepted by Walbank (Comm. Polyb. III, on 32.16.1; 33.1; 32.15.1-4; 33.7, 12.1-13.10, with references to earlier discussions on p. 540). See MRR 1.448-451. The attack on Attalus in 156 caused Lentulus to return to Rome with the Attalid prince Athenaeus, but before their arrival a doubting Senate had sent L. Appuleius and C. Petronius. The report of Lentulus and Athenaeus led to the immediate appointment, probably late in 156, of a new embassy, C. Claudius Centho, L. Hortensius and C. Aurunculeius, who reached Pergamum in the spring of 155 in time to arrange a conference which was ruined by Pharnaces' treachery, to be immured in Pergamum and to see the havoc Pharnaces caused. By autumn they had returned to Rome, and a commission of ten was sent, led by L. Anicius Gallus, C. Fannius Strabo, and Q. Fabius Maximus Aemilianus, late in 155 or early in 154, who observed Attalus' victorious counterattack and returned. Finally, in summer 154, a new embassy, Ap. Claudius Centho, L. Oppius, and A. Postumius Albinus, secured peace between the two kings, and the payment of indemnities by Prusias to Attalus and the Greek cities. See also L. Robert, Et. Anat. 110-115. (Broughton MRR III)
  • Consul 151 (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • Polyb. 35.3.7; Cic. Acad. 2.137; Brut. 81; Att. 13.32.3; Nepos in Gell. 11.8.2; Liv. Per. 48; Fast. Cap., Degrassi 52f., 124, 464f. ([- - - -]n. Lucullus, A. Postumius A. [f. A. n. Al]binus); Chr. 354; Fast. Hyd.; Chr. Pasc.; Oros. 4.21.1; Cassiod.; and on Lucullus, Fast. Ant., Degrassi 160f. ([L. Li]cini. Luc[- - - -]). They pressed the levy for the war in Spain so hard that they were imprisoned by the Tribunes (Liv. Per. 48; App. Ib. 49). Lucullus, finding that Marcellus had made peace with the Celtiberi in Hither Spain, attacked the Vaccaei, treacherously slew all males among the Cauci after their surrender, besieged Intercatia until Scipio (see below) arranged for terms, and failing to take Pallantia, retired to winter in Turdetania (App. Ib. 51-55, and 89; cf. Polyb. 35.3-5; Liv. Per. 48; Flor. 1.33.11; Auct. Vir. Ill. 58.2-3; Oros. 4.21.1-2). On Postumius, see Lübker no. 4. (Broughton MRR I)
  • Legatus (Ambassador) 146 Achaea (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • On Albinus, see also Polyb. 39.1. (Broughton MRR I)
    • These and others up to ten in number were sent to assist Mummius in reorganizing Greece (I. v. Olymp. 321-324; Polyb. 39.1.1-4;{468} Cic. Att. 13.4.1, 5.1, 6a, 30.2, 32.3, and 33.3; Mur. 15, on Licinius; Pausan. 7.16.9.10). On Postumius, see Lübker no. 4. (Broughton MRR I)
    • Additions and Corrections. See also SEG 1.152 at Delphi. (Broughton MRR II)
  • Legatus (Ambassador) 145 Achaea (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • The ten Legates sent to assist Mummius in Greece returned home in the spring (Polyb. 39.5.1; see 146, Legates). (Broughton MRR I)

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