Spurius Postumius Albinus Magnus was a politician of ancient Rome, of patrician rank, during the 2nd century BC. He was

consul Consul (abbrev. ''cos.''; Latin plural ''consules'') was the title of one of the two chief magistrates of the Roman Republic, and subsequently also an important title under the Roman Empire. The title was used in other European city-states throu ...

in 148 BC, in which year a great fire happened at Rome. It is this Spurius Albinus of whom

Cicero Marcus Tullius Cicero ( ; ; 3 January 106 BC – 7 December 43 BC) was a Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, philosopher, and academic skeptic, who tried to uphold optimate principles during the political crises that led to the esta ...

speaks in the ''Brutus'', and says that there were many orations of his.

, ''Brutus'' c. 25

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Based on their

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s, he was probably the father of the consuls Spurius Postumius Albinus and Aulus Postumius Albinus.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Postumius Albinus, Spurius, Magnus 2nd-century BC Roman consuls Spurius, Magnus

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