POST1874 L. Postumius (13)

Status

  • Patrician

Life Dates

  • 90, death - violent (Broughton MRR II) Expand

    KIA, Social War.

Career

  • Praetor before 89 quo senatus censuisset (Brennan 2000) Expand
    • Liv. Per. 73. Captured and slain by the Samnites at Nola (Liv. Per. 73; cf. App. BC 1.42). (Broughton MRR II)
    • Praetor 90. See MRR 2.26. Münzer (RE no. 13) favors 91 as the date of his praetorship, and Albinus as his cognomen. If so, he would be a promagistrate or a legate when killed at Nola early in 90. (Broughton MRR III)
    • p. 747, footnote 274 (Brennan 2000)