Aulus Postumius Albinus Luscus

For other people with similar names, see Aulus Postumius.

Aulus Postumius Albinus Luscus was a politician of Ancient Rome, of patrician rank, of the 2nd century BC.[1] He was curule aedile in 187 BC, when he exhibited the Great Games, praetor in 185 BC, and consul in 180 BC.[2] In his consulship he conducted the war against the Ligurians.[3]

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.[4][5] He was elected in his censorship one of the decemviri sacrorum in the place of Lucius Cornelius Lentulus.[6] 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.[7] In 171 BC he was sent as one of the ambassadors to Crete;[8] 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 Paullus Macedonicus.[9] Livy not infrequently calls him "Luscus", from which it would seem that he was blind in one eye.[1]

  1. ^ a b Smith, William (1867), "Aulus Postumius Albinus (13)", in Smith, William (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. 1, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, p. 91
  2. ^ Livy, xxxix. 7, 23, xl 35
  3. ^ Livy, xl. 41
  4. ^ Livy, xli. 32, xlii. 10
  5. ^ comp. Cicero, In Verrem i. 41
  6. ^ Livy, xlii. 10
  7. ^ Polybius, xxvi. 9
  8. ^ Livy, xlii. 35
  9. ^ Livy, xlv. 17