Digital Prosopography of the Roman Republic

POST0382 Sp. Postumius (61) Albinus Regillensis

Status

  • Patrician
  • Nobilis Expand

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

Life Dates

  • 380, death (Broughton MRR I)

Career

  • Tribunus Militum Consulari Potestate 394 (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • According to Diod. There were only three Military Tribunes c. p. (14.97.1; and 15.2.1). On Medullinus' many magistracies, see RE no. 65; 413, note 1. Aemilius' name is completed from Fast. Cap. and Chr. 354 on 391. Postumius is probably a Censor of 380; see that year. Cornelius, now holding{91} the magistracy for the second time (Liv.), may be Scipio (RE 328; Mil. Tr. c. p. 395) or Cossus (120; Mil. Tr. c. p. 395) or Maluginensis (252; Mil. Tr. c. p. 397), preferably the last, though there are several examples in these times of persons who held this office in successive years. (Broughton MRR I)
    • Liv. 5.25.2; Diod. 14.97.1; 15.2.1; Fast. Cap. ([- -Camillu]s III); Chr. 354 (Camello III et Publicola); Degrassi 30f., 99f., 386f. Camillus reduced Falerii to surrender (Liv. 5.26.3-27.15; Dion. Hal. 13.1-2; Val. Max. 6.5.1; Plut. Cam. 9-11; Frontin. Str. 4.4.1; Polyaen. 8.7; Dio fr. 24; Eutrop. 1.20; Auct. Vir. Ill. 23; Zon. 7.21; cf. Diod. 14.96.5, and 98.5); while Aemilius and Postumius operated against the Aequi (Liv. 5.28.6-13; cf. Diod. 14.98.5). On Valerius, see Münzer, Gent. Val. 36, no. 6. (Broughton MRR I)
  • Censor 380 (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • This censorship is questioned by Münzer, RE s. v. "Sulpicius" no. 29, and Beloch )RG 83) because of the large number of Military Tribunes in 380 and the reappearance of the names Sulpicius and Postumius as Censors in 366. The prompt election of new Censors in 378 indicates that the tradition given above is probably correct, and there is no proof that the Censors of 366 were the same men. See Cram, HSCPh 51 (1940) 78-80. (Broughton MRR I)
    • Postumius died, Sulpicius abdicated, and their successors were vitio creati, so no further election was attempted (Liv. 6.27.4-5; Degrassi 102, 392f.). On the name of Poplicola, see 394 and 389; on that of Potitus, see Fast. Cap. for 367, and cf. 386, note 1. The proper form of Menenius' cognomen appears in Fast. Cap. On the name of Aemilius, see Fast. Cap. for 391. On Sergius' praenomen, see Fast. Cap., and cf. Liv. 6.5.7. Ti., otherwise unexampled in the Papirian family, like the Titus indicated in Diod., is clear on the stone. On L. Papirius Mugillanus, see 382, note 1. (Broughton MRR I)

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