Gaius Vibius Postumus was a

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, who flourished under the reign of

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. He was suffect consul for the latter half of AD 5 with Gaius Ateius Capito as his colleague.

Ronald Syme Sir Ronald Syme, (11 March 1903 – 4 September 1989) was a New Zealand-born historian and classicist. He was regarded as the greatest historian of ancient Rome since Theodor Mommsen and the most brilliant exponent of the history of the Roman ...

identifies him as a ''

novus homo ''Novus homo'' or ''homo novus'' (Latin for 'new man'; ''novi homines'' or ''homines novi'') was the term in ancient Rome for a man who was the first in his Roman gens, family to serve in the Roman Senate or, more specifically, to be elected as R ...

'' from Lavinum in

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. His brother

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was suffect consul in the latter half of AD 8. Postumus shared in the achievements of

Lucius Apronius Lucius Apronius was a Roman senator and suffect consul in 8 AD. Achievements He became suffect consul in 8 AD, and was a military commander active during the reign of Tiberius. Apronius shared in the achievements of Gaius Vibius Postumus a ...

and earned the '' ornamenta triumphalia'' for his distinguished valor in the Dalmatian revolt. He was also

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ar governor of

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in the years 12 to 15. One of the poems of the

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, attributed to Apollonides, refers to the construction of a temple to

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by a Postumus; Syme identifies its author as

Apollonides of Nicaea Apollonides of Nicaea ( grc, Ἀπολλωνίδης ὁ Νικαεύς) is a writer from Ancient Greece about whom little is known. Apollonides lived in the time of the Roman emperor Tiberius, to whom he dedicated a commentary on the '' Silloi'' o ...

, and the person responsible for the temple as Vibius Postumus, who had the temple erected during his governorship.Syme, ''Augustan Aristocracy'', p. 379

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Postumus Marcus Cassianius Latinius Postumus was a Roman commander of Batavian origin, who ruled as Emperor of the splinter state of the Roman Empire known to modern historians as the Gallic Empire. The Roman army in Gaul threw off its allegiance to G ...