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Roman senator and general (died 439 BC)
Spurius Postumius Albus Regillensis
(died 439 BC) was a
patrician
politician of Ancient Rome.
[1]
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.
He, or possibly his brother Aulus, was appointed to dedicate the
Temple of Castor
in 484 BC as
duumviri aedi dedicandae
.
[2]
[3]
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
.
[4]
[5]
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.
[6]
[7]
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.
[8]
[9]
[10]
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.
[11]
He died in 439 BC and was replaced in his priesthood by
Quintus Servilius Priscus
, possibly identified as the same man as the dictator of 435 BC.
[12]
[13]
[14]
He was apparently the father of the
Spurius Postumius Albus Regillensis
who was
consular tribune
in 432 BC.
See also
[
edit
]
References
[
edit
]
- ^
Smith, William
(1867),
"Spurius Postumius Albus Regillensis (2)"
, in Smith, William (ed.),
Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology
, vol. 1, Boston:
Little, Brown and Company
, pp. 90?91
- ^
Livy
. ii. 42.5
- ^
Broughton
, vol i, pp.22
- ^
Livy
, 3.2
- ^
Dionysius of Halicarnassus
, 9.60
- ^
H. Dessau
,
Inscriptiones Latinae Selectae
,
9338, 2
- ^
Broughton, vol i, pp.36
- ^
Livy, 3.31, 33
- ^
Dionysius of Halicarnassus, 10.52, 56
- ^
Broughton, vol i, pp.43-45
- ^
Livy, 3.70
- ^
ILS
9338, 2
- ^
Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum
, vi, 37161
- ^
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
.