Lucius Postumius Albin ( Latin: Lucius Postumius Albinus ; II century BC) - Roman politician and military leader from the patrician clan Postumiev , consul 173 BC e. He participated in the wars in Spain and Macedonia .
| Lucius Postumius Albin |
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| lat Lucius postumius albinus |
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| Praetor of the Roman Republic |
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| 180 BC e. |
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| Prophet of Far Spain |
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| 179 BC e. year BC e. |
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| Consul of the Roman Republic |
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| 173 BC e. |
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| Birth | III century BC e.
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| Death | II century BC e.
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| Kind | Postumi |
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| Father | Avl Postumiy Albin |
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Lucius Postumius belonged to one of the most notorious patrician families of Rome, mentioned in sources starting from the first decade of the Roman Republic. Consular fasts call the name of the father and grandfather Lucius Postumius - Aul [1] ; from this it is concluded that Lucius was probably the grandson of the consul 242 BC. e. Avla Postumia Albina . His older brothers were Aulus Postumius Albin Lusk (consul 180 BC) and Spoorius Postumius Albin Pavlul (consul 174) [2] .
In 180 BC e., in the year of the consulate of the eldest of the brothers, Lucius Postumius was praetor and received the administration of Far Spain [3] , in which he remained the next year as prophet . He managed to win victories over the Lusitans and the "surrounding Spaniards", and for this he received a triumph upon his return to Rome (178 BC) [4] . On the whole, very little is known about the Spanish governorship of Albina; this is explained by the fact that the Roman annalists preferred Lucius Postumius to his colleague Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus , who at the same time ruled Near Spain and celebrated a triumph a day earlier [5] .
In 174 BC e. Lucius Postumius finally won the consular election [6] [7] . He owed his success to the brothers, one of whom was a consul in 174, and the other a censor [8] . Most of the consular year, Albin spent, on behalf of the Senate, delimiting private and public lands in Campania [9] , so that only his colleague Mark Popillius Lenat waged war on the ligurs [8] .
When the Third Macedonian War began (171 BC), Lucius Postumius, together with two more senators, went to Africa to get elephants and cavalry from Carthage and Numidia for the army going to the Balkans [10] [11] . After unsuccessful participation in the censorship elections (169 BC), Lucius Postumius became a military tribune in the army of Lucius Emilia Paul and in the decisive battle with the Macedonians at Pidna on June 22, 168 BC. e. commanded the second legion, attacking the very middle of the enemy system [12] [13] . The following year, he was to destroy the city of Aeneas on the peninsula of Halkidiki by order of the proconsul [14] ; since the surviving part of Titus Liviaβs work ends there, nothing is known about the future fate of Lucius Postumius [15] .