Spurius Postumius Albinus Magnus

Spurius Postumius Albinus Magnus was a politician of ancient Rome, of patrician rank, of the 2nd century BC.[1] He was consul in 148 BC, in which year a great fire happened at Rome.[2] It is this Spurius Albinus of whom Cicero speaks in the Brutus, and says that there were many orations of his.[3]

For other people with similar names, see Spurius Postumius.

Children

Based on their filiations, he was probably the father of the consuls Spurius Postumius Albinus and Aulus Postumius Albinus.

See also

References
  1. Smith, William (1867), "Spurius Postumius Albinus Magnus (19)", in Smith, William (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, 1, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, p. 92
  2. Julius Obsequens, 78
  3. Cicero, Brutus c. 25

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). "Albinus (19)". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. 1. p. 92.

Political offices
Preceded by
L. Marcius Censorinus
Manius Manilius		 Roman consul
148 BC
with Lucius Calpurnius Piso Caesoninus		 Succeeded by
Scipio Aemilianus
Gaius Livius Drusus
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