Aulus Postumius Albinus (consul 151 BC)

Aulus Postumius Albinus was a Roman politician and writer of the 2nd century BC

A. Postumius Albinus was a member of an embassy to King Perseus of Macedon, whose custody he took over as military tribune BC 167, after the victory of Pydna. Well 159 BC he was aedile. As praetor urbanus 155 BC he received a delegation of Greek philosophers. 154 BC it belonged to an embassy to the mediation between Attalos II and Prusias II. 151 BC Postumius was consul. The tribunes could arrest him and his colleagues because of their hardness. 146 BC, he was a member of a Commission to establish the province of Achaia after the destruction of Corinth. According to Cicero, he received monuments in important places.

About his historical work, Gellius and Macrobius inform only. He is said to have written in the style of Thucydides and Greek. Polybius mentions a poem that may coincide with a text testified about the arrival of Aeneas in Italy. Polybius and Cato rejected the work of Postumius. Cicero knew the work yet, judging positive. After it has been lost.