person
Aulus Postumius Albinus
Postumius Albinus
also: Albinus, Postumius
Consul 151 BC (with L. Licinius Lucullus) and one of the ten commissioners who settled Greece after the sack of Corinth in 146 BC; a philhellene annalist. Cicero researches his place on the commission and recalls his statue at the Isthmus (Att. 13.30, 13.32).
Reading notes
- Ad Atticum 13.30 §2 I remember Albinus the consular
A. Postumius Albinus, consul 151 BC, a philhellene annalist and one of the ten commissioners on the Greek settlement (he reappears as "Postumius" in 13.32). "Consular" (consularis) means a man who has already held the consulship.
- Ad Atticum 13.32 §3 whose statue at the Isthmus
Postumius is A. Postumius Albinus, the "Albinus the consular" of 13.30 (consul 151 BC with L. Lucullus). A statue of him stood at the Isthmus of Corinth, commemorating his role in the post-146 settlement of Greece.