Aulus Postumius Albus Regillensis

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Aulus Postumius Albus Regillensis († after 493 BC) was a Roman politician in the 5th century BC. Chr.

According to Roman tradition, Postumius, whose father was a man named Publius after the consular fasts , was dictator in 499 BC. And is said to have triumphed over the Latins in the battle of Lake Regillus . In 496 BC He became consul with Titus Verginius Tricostus Caelimontanus . According to an alternative tradition, the victory at Lake Regillus only fell this year after Postumius resigned from office due to differences of opinion with his colleague and was made dictator. In the following year Postumius commanded a cavalry unit against the Sabines . He can also be equated with Postumius Balbus, who lived in 493 BC. Belonged to an embassy to the plebeians who had left Rome.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ T. Robert S. Broughton : The Magistrates Of The Roman Republic. Vol. 1: 509 BC - 100 BC Cleveland / Ohio: Case Western Reserve University Press, 1951. Reprinted unchanged 1968. (Philological Monographs. Ed. Of the American Philological Association. Vol. 15, Part 1), pp. 10f
  2. ↑ Titus Livius 2, 19, 3–2, 20, 13.
  3. ^ T. Robert S. Broughton : The Magistrates Of The Roman Republic. Vol. 1: 509 BC - 100 BC Cleveland, Ohio: Case Western Reserve University Press, 1951. Reprinted unchanged 1968. (Philological Monographs. Ed. Of the American Philological Association. Vol. 15, Part 1), p. 12
  4. ^ Livy 2:21 , 2-4.
  5. ↑ Livius 2:26 , 2.Dionysius of Halicarnassus 6:33.
  6. ^ Dionysius of Halicarnassus 6:69.

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SURNAME Postumius albus regillensis, aulus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Albus Regillensis, Aulus Postumius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Politician of the Roman Republic, Consul 496 BC Chr.
DATE OF BIRTH 6th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH after 493 BC Chr.