Spurius Postumius Albinus (consul 186 BC)

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

Spurius Postumius Albinus was a politician of Ancient Rome, of patrician rank, of the 2nd century BC.[1] He was praetor peregrinus in 189 BC, and consul in 186 BC.[2] In his consulship the senatusconsultum was passed, which is still extant, suppressing the worship of Bacchus in Rome, in consequence of the abominable crimes which were said to have been committed in connection with it.[3][4][5][6] He was also augur, and died in 179 BC at an advanced age.[7][8]

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References

  1. ^ Smith, William (1867), "Spurius Postumius Albinus (12)", in Smith, William, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, 1, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, pp. 91, http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0100.html 
  2. ^ Livy, xxxvii. 47, 50
  3. ^ Livy, xxxix. 6, 11, &c.
  4. ^ Valerius Maximus, vi. 3. ยง 7
  5. ^ Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia xxxiii. 10
  6. ^ Dict. of Ant. p. 344
  7. ^ Livy, xl. 42
  8. ^ Cicero, Cato Maior de Senectute 3
Political offices
Preceded by
Marcus Aemilius Lepidus and Gaius Flaminius		 Consul of the Roman Republic
with Quintus Marcius Philippus
186 BC		 Succeeded by
Appius Claudius Pulcher and Marcus Sempronius Tuditanus

This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William Smith (1870).