Aulus Postumius Albinus Luscus

:"For others of this gens, see Postumia gens. For other Postumii with the cognomen "Albus" or "Albinus", see Albinus (cognomen)."Aulus Postumius Albinus Luscus was a politician of Ancient Rome, of patrician rank, of the 2nd century BC.Citation | last = Smith | first = William | author-link = William Smith (lexicographer) | contribution = Aulus Postumius Albinus (13) | editor-last = Smith | editor-first = William | title = Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology | volume = 1 | pages = 91 | publisher = Little, Brown and Company | place = Boston | year = 1867 | contribution-url = http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0100.html ] He was curule aedile in 187 BC, when he exhibited the Great Games, praetor in 185 BC, and consul in 180 BC. [Livy, xxxix. 7, 23, xl 35] In his consulship he conducted the war against the Ligurians. [Livy, xl. 41]

He was censor in 174 BC with Quintus Fulvius Flaccus. Their censorship was a severe one; they expelled nine members from the senate, and degraded many of equestrian rank. They enacted, however, many public works. [Livy, xli. 32, xlii. 10] ["comp." Cicero, "In Verrem" i. 41] He was elected in his censorship one of the "decemviri sacrorum" in the place of Lucius Cornelius Lentulus. [Livy, xlii. 10] In 175 BC he was sent into northern Greece to inquire into the truth of the representations of the Dardanians and Thessalians about the Bastarnae and Perseus of Macedon. [Polybius, xxvi. 9] In 171 BC he was sent as one of the am­bassadors to Crete; [Livy, xlii. 35] and after the conquest of Macedonia in 168 BC he was one of the ten commissioners appointed to settle the affairs of the country with Lucius Aemilius Paulus Macedonicus. [Livy, xlv. 17] Livy not infrequently calls him "Luscus", from which it would seem that he was blind in one eye.

He was probably a brother of Spurius Postumius Albinus Paullulus and Lucius Postumius Albinus, and father of Aulus Postumius Albinus.

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