Aulus Postumius Albinus Luscus was a politician of Ancient Rome, of patrician rank, of the 2nd century BC. ^[1] He was curule aedile in 187 BC, when he exhibited the Great Games, praetor in 185 BC, and consul in 180 BC. ^[2] In his consulship he conducted the war against the Ligurians . ^[3]

He was censor in 174 BC with Quintus Fulvius Flaccus . Their censorship was a severe one; they expelled nine members from the senate , and degraded many of equestrian rank . They enacted, however, many public works. ^{[4] [5]} He was elected in his censorship one of the decemviri sacrorum in the place of Lucius Cornelius Lentulus . ^[6] In 175 BC he was sent into northern Greece to inquire into the truth of the representations of the Dardanians and Thessalians about the Bastarnae and Perseus of Macedon . ^[7] In 171 BC he was sent as one of the ambassadors to Crete ; ^[8] and after the conquest of Macedonia in 168 BC he was one of the ten commissioners appointed to settle the affairs of the country with Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus . ^[9] Livy not infrequently calls him "Luscus", from which it would seem that he was blind in one eye. ^[1]

Family [ edit ]

He was probably a brother of Spurius Postumius Albinus Paullulus and Lucius Postumius Albinus , and father of Aulus Postumius Albinus .

See also [ edit ]

• Postumia gens

References [ edit ]

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain :  Smith, William , ed. (1870). "Albinus (13)". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology . Vol. 1. p. 91.