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{{Short description|Roman senator and general, consul in 464 BC}}
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'''Aulus Postumius Albus Regillensis''' was a [[Patrician (ancient Rome)|patrician]] politician of ancient Rome, and apparently son of [[Aulus Postumius Albus Regillensis]], and therefore brother of [[Spurius Postumius Albus Regillensis (consul 466 BC)|Spurius Postumius Albus Regillensis]].<ref name="DGRBM">{{Citation  | last = Smith  | first = William  | author-link = William Smith (lexicographer)  | contribution = Aulus Postumius Albus Regillensis (3) | 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 }}</ref> He, or possibly his brother Spurius, was appointed to dedicate the [[Temple of Castor and Pollux|Temple of Castor]] in 484 BC as ''duumviri aedi dedicandae''.<ref>[[Livy]]. ii. 42.5</ref><ref>[[Thomas Robert Shannon Broughton|Broughton]], vol i, pp.22</ref>
He was [[Roman consul|consul]] in 464 BC, carried on war against the [[Aequi]]ans, and protected the border from raiders.<ref>[[Thomas Robert Shannon Broughton|T. Robert S. Broughton]]: ''The Magistrates Of The Roman Republic. Vol. 1: 509 B.C. - 100 B.C.''. Cleveland / Ohio: Case Western Reserve University Press, 1951. Reprint 1968. (Philological Monographs. Edited by the American Philological Association. Vol. 15, 1), p.34</ref>
He (or his brother Spurius) was either a [[augur]] or [[Pontifex maximus|pontifex]] as gathered from an inscription saying that he co-opted the year in 462 BC, a role traditionally ascribed to one of these posts.<ref>[[Hermann Dessau|H. Dessau]], ''[[Inscriptiones Latinae Selectae]],'' 9338, 2</ref><ref>Broughton, vol i, pp.36</ref>
Before the [[Battle of Mount Algidus]] he was sent as ambassador, along with [[Quintus Fabius Vibulanus (consul 467 BC)|Quintus Fabius Vibulanus]] and [[Publius Volumnius Amintinus Gallus]], to the Aequians in 458 BC, on which occasion he was insulted by their commander, who told him to take Rome's entreaties and tell them to an oak tree.<ref>[[Livy]], iii. 4, 5, 25</ref><ref>[[Dionysius of Halicarnassus]], ix. 62, 65</ref>
==See also==
* [[Postumia gens]]
==References==
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