POST0341 M. Postumius (16) A. f. A. n. Albinus Regillensis

Status

  • Patrician
  • Nobilis Expand

    Liv. 9.34.6 (all censors between lex Aemilia and 310 "nobilissimi... viri")

Career

  • Censor 403 (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • Fast. Cap. (names entire, except C[amillus], and [M.] Postumius, etc.); Degrassi 28f., 98, 380f. They imposed taxes on bachelors, and on orphans (Val. Max. 2.9.1; Plut. Cam. 2.2). As before (see 410), Livy's praenomen M. for Aemilius is corrected to M'., and the cognomen is Mamercus. Manius Claudius in Diod. is probably a fusion of the two names. The readings in Livy for Iulius' cognomen (Rullus and Tullus) are corrected as in other to cases to Iullus; see 489, note 1. Borghese and Henzen were inclined to identify Claudius Crassus with Claudius Crassus Inregillensis, Dict. 362 and Cos. 349, but Degrassi (98) notes that Inregillensis never stood in Fast. Cap. for 403 and doubts the probability of the same person holding these two offices after such a lapse of time. (Broughton MRR I)
  • Tribunus Militum Consulari Potestate? 403 (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • Fast. Cap. preserves the following names: [- - - - -]ius Mam. f. M. n. M[amerc]in. II; [- - - Clau]dius P. f. Ap. n. [Crass]us; [- - Qui]nctilius L. f. L. n. [Var]us; M. Fur[ius-f.-n.] Fusus; L. Iuli[us Sp. f. Vopisci n.] Iulus; Val. entire, numeral III. Chr. 354 has Mamertino et Fuso. Fast. Cap. and Diod. indicate only six (Diod. lists five) Military Tribunes, while Livy mentions eight. In his list five names agree with those in the other sources, but he has M. Postumius for Furius Fusus, and his final two, Camillus and Postumius Albinus, appear in Fast. Cap., Val. Max. and Plutarch as Censors. Livy or his source has probably incorporated the Censors of this year in the list of Military Tribunes. Belcoh thinks that they were Military Tribunes with censorial powers (RG 77ff.). Substitution of M. Postumius for M. Furius is probably only a slip (RE, no. 60). (Broughton MRR I)
    • Liv. 5.1.2; Diod. 14.35.1; Fast. Cap., note 1; Chr. 354; Degrassi 28f., 98, 380f. Claudius remained in charge at Rome while the rest were serving against Veii (Liv. 5.2.13-7.1). On Valerius, see Münzer, Gent. Val. 35, no. 4. (Broughton MRR I)