Spurius Postumius Albus Regillensis (consul 466 BC)

Spurius Postumius Albus Regillensis was a patrician politician of Ancient Rome.[2] His filiation as reported in the Fasti Capitolini suggests he was the son of Aulus Postumius Albus Regillensis, consul 496 BC, and brother of Aulus Postumius Albus Regillensis, consul 464 BC, although it must be observed that no great dependence can be placed upon genealogies from such early times.

Spurius Postumius Albus Regillensis
Consul of the Roman Republic
In office 1 August 466 BC [1] – 31 July 465 BC Serving with Quintus Servilius Priscus Structus (consul 468 BC)
Preceded by	Tiberius Aemilius Mamercinus, Quintus Fabius Vibulanus
Succeeded by	Quintus Fabius Vibulanus, Titus Quinctius Capitolinus Barbatus
First College of Decemvirs
In office 451 BC – 450 BC Serving with Appius Claudius Crassus Aulus Manlius Vulso Titus Genucius Augurinus Servius Sulpicius Camerinus Cornutus Titus Veturius Geminus Cicurinus Publius Curiatius Fistus Trigeminus Publius Sestius Capitolinus Vaticanus Titus Romilius Rocus Vaticanus Gaius Julius Iulus (consul 482 BC)
Preceded by	Appius Claudius Crassus Titus Genucius Augurinus
Succeeded by	Second College of Decemvirs
Personal details
Born	Unknown Ancient Rome
Died	439 BC Ancient Rome
Children	Spurius Postumius Albus Regillensis (consul 432 BC)

For other Persons with the cognomen "Albus" or "Albinus", see Albinus (cognomen).

He, or possibly his brother Aulus, was appointed to dedicate the Temple of Castor in 484 BC as duumviri aedi dedicandae.[3][4] He was consul in 466 BC and is credited with the dedication of the temple of Dius Fidius while his consular colleague Quintus Servilius Priscus fought the Aequi.[5][6]

He was either a augur or pontifex as gathered from an inscription saying that he co-opted the year in 462 BC, a role traditionally ascribed to one of these posts.[7][8]

He was one of the three commissioners sent into Greece to collect information about the laws of that country leaving in 454 and returning in 452 BC. He was appointed as a member of the first decemvirate in 451 BC.[9][10][11]

He commanded, as legatus, the center of the Roman army in the Battle of Corbio, in which the Aequians and Volscians were defeated in 446 BC.[12]

He died in 439 BC and was replaced in his priesthood by Quintus Servilius Priscus Structus, possibly identified as the same man as the dictator of 435 BC.[13][14][15]

He was apparently the father of the Spurius Postumius Albus Regillensis who was consular tribune in 432 BC.

See also

• Postumia gens

References

1. Robert Maxwell Ogilvie, Commentary on Livy, books 1–5, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1965, pp. 404, 405.
2. Smith, William (1867), "Spurius Postumius Albus Regillensis (2)", in Smith, William (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, 1, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, pp. 90–91
3. Livy. ii. 42.5
4. Broughton, vol i, pp.22
5. Livy, 3.2
6. Dionysius of Halicarnassus, 9.60
7. H. Dessau, Inscriptiones Latinae Selectae, 9338, 2
8. Broughton, vol i, pp.36
9. Livy, 3.31, 33
10. Dionysius of Halicarnassus, 10.52, 56
11. Broughton, vol i, pp.43-45
12. Livy, 3.70
13. ILS 9338, 2
14. Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, vi, 37161
15. Broughton, vol i, pp.57

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). "Spurius Postumius Albus Regillensis (2)". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.