Albinus (cognomen)

:"For other uses of this name, see Albinus."Albinus or Albus was the cognomen, or distinguishing family name, of the prin­cipal family of the patrician Postumia gens. The original name was Albus, as appears from the "Fasti", which was afterwards lengthened into Albinus. We find in proper names in Latin, derivatives ending in "-anus", "-enus", and "-inus", used without any additional meaning, in the same sense as the simple forms.Citation | last = Smith | first = William | author-link = William Smith (lexicographer) | contribution = Albinus | editor-last = Smith | editor-first = William | title = Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology | volume = 1 | pages = 90 | publisher = Little, Brown and Company | place = Boston | year = 1867 | contribution-url = http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0099.html ] [Comp. Niebuhr, "Hist. of Rome", i. n. 219]

Notable Albini

5th century BC

*Aulus Postumius Albus Regillensis, consul in 496 BC
*Spurius Postumius Albus Regillensis (consul 466 BC)
*Aulus Postumius Albus Regillensis (consul 464 BC)
*Spurius Postumius Albus Regillensis (consul 432 BC)
*Publius Postumius Albus Regillensis, consular tribune in 414 BC, and shortly thereafter murdered by his own men
*Marcus Postumius Albinus Regillensis, censor in 403 BC

4th century BC

*Aulus Postumius Albinus Regillensis, consular tribune in 397 BC
*Spurius Postumius Albinus Regillensis, consular tribune in 394 BC
*Spurius Postumius Albinus, consul in 334 and 321 BC, general in the Second Samnite War

3rd century BC

*Aulus Postumius Albinus (consul 242 BC), censor 234 BC
*Lucius Postumius Albinus (consul 234 and 229 BC)

2nd century BC

*Spurius Postumius Albinus (consul 186 BC)
*Aulus Postumius Albinus Luscus, consul in 180 BC
*Spurius Postumius Albinus Paullulus, consul in 174 BC
*Lucius Postumius Albinus, consul in 173 BC
*Aulus Postumius Albinus, one of the officers in the army of Aemilius Paullus in Macedonia in 168 BC. He was sent by Paullus to treat with Perseus, and afterwards Perseus and his son Philip were committed to his care by Paullus. [Livy, xlv. 4, 28]
*Lucius Postumius Albinus (consul 154 BC)
*Aulus Postumius Albinus (consul 151 BC)
*Spurius Postumius Albinus Magnus, consul 148 BC
*Spurius Postumius Albinus (consul 110 BC)
*Aulus Postimius Albinus (propraetor 110 BC)

1st century BC

*Aulus Postumius Albinus, consul in 99 BC
*Aulus Postumius Albinus (praetor 89 BC)
*Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus (adopted), Roman admiral of Caesar and later one of his assassins.
*Aulus Postumius Albinus was placed by Julius Caesar over Sicily in 48 BC. [Appian, "B. C." ii. 48]

1st century

*Lucceius Albinus, a Roman procurator of Iudaea Province (62–64)

2nd century

*Decimus Clodius Albinus, a ruler of Roman Britain and claimant to the Roman Empire
*Juventinus Albius Ovidius, a Roman poet, probably of the late 2nd century

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