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For others of this gens, see Postumia gens. For other Postumii with the cognomen "Albus" or "Albinus", see Albinus (cognomen).

Spurius Postumius Albinus Magnus was a politician of ancient Rome, of patrician rank, of the 2nd century BC.^[1] He was consul in 148 BC, in which year a great fire happened at Rome. ^[2] It is this Spurius Albinus of whom Cicero speaks in the Brutus, and says that there were many orations of his.^[3]

He was probably the father of Spurius Postumius Albinus and Aulus Postimius Albinus.

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^ Smith, William (1867), "Spurius Postumius Albinus Magnus (19)", in Smith, William, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, 1, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, pp. 92, http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0101.html
^ Julius Obsequens, 78
^ Cicero, Brutus c. 25

Preceded by Lucius Marcius Censorinus and Manius Manilius	Consul of the Roman Republic with Lucius Calpurnius Piso Caesoninus 148 BC	Succeeded by Scipio Aemilianus Africanus and Gaius Livius Drusus

This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William Smith (1870).

[DGRBM-0] Smith, William (1867), "Spurius Postumius Albinus Magnus (19)", in Smith, William, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, 1, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, pp. 92, http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0101.html

[1] Julius Obsequens, 78

[2] Cicero, Brutus c. 25

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