Postumius
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Postumiusque Proper-name noun: masculine nominative singular, Proper-name adjective: masculine nominative singular of Postumius
Postumiusque Adverb: comparative, Adjective: neuter accusative singular comparative, Adjective: neuter vocative singular comparative, Adjective: neuter nominative singular comparative of postumus
- I Postumius Tubertus, a Roman consul, Liv. 2, 16.—
- II Postumia, wife of Sulpicius, Cic. Fam. 4, 2, 1.—
- III A Vestal, Liv. 4, 44.—
- IV A woman addicted to tippling, Cat. 27, 3.—Hence,
- A Po-stŭmĭus, a, um, adj., Postumian: lex, Plin. 14, 12, 14, § 88: via, leading towards Genoa, Tac. H. 3, 21.—
- B Postŭmĭā-nus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to a Postumius, Postumian: imperia, i.e. of the dictator A. Postumius Tubertus, Gell. 1, 13, 7; Liv. 4, 29: caedes, i.e. of M. Postumius Regillensis, id. 4, 51.
1. A. Postumius, tribunus militum in B. C. 180. (Liv. 40.41.)
2. C. Postumius, tribunus militum in B. C. 168. (Liv. 45.6.)
3. Postumus, a soothsayer, who predicted success to Sulla, and told him to keep him in chains, and put him to death if matters did not turn out well. Plutarch (Plut. Sull. 9) says that this occurred when Sulla was marching upon Rome, in B. C. 88; whereas Cicero (de Div. 1.33) and Valerius Maximus (1.6.4) relate that it happened before the battle in which Sulla defeated the Samnites.
4. M. Postumius, quaestor of Verres in his government of Sicily, B. C. 73. (Cic. Ver. 2.18.)
5. Cn. Postumius, was one of the supporters (subscriptores) of Ser. Sulpicius in his prosecution of Murena for bribery in B. C. 63. He had been a candidate for the praetorship in the same year. (Cic. pro Mur. 26, 27, 33.)
6. T. Postumius, an orator mentioned by Cicero with praise (Brut. 77), may perhaps have been the same person as the following.
7. Postumius, a friend of Cicero, belonged to the Pompeian party, and on the breaking out of the civil war, in B. C. 49, was appointed by the senate to succeed Furfanius Postumus in Sicily; but as he refused to go to the province without Cato, Fannius was sent in his stead. (Cic. Att. 7.15.2.) Cicero mentions him as one of his friends in B. C. 46 (ad Fam. 6.12.2, 13.69). He speaks of him again as one of the procuratores of the games of Octavius in B. C. 44 (ad Att. 15.2.3).
8. Postumius, a legate of Caesar, whom he sent over from Greece to Italy in B. C. 48, to hasten the passage of his troops. (Appian, App. BC 2.58.)
9. P. Postumius, a friend of M. Marcellus, who was murdered at Athens in B. C. 45. (Servius, ap. Cic. Fam. 4.12.2.)
10. Q. Postumius, a Roman senator, was torn to pieces by order of Antony, because he meditated deserting to Augustus in B. . 31. (D. C. 1. 13.)
architect. [Pollio.]
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…iudicio Gabiniano recitatae non sunt. quo teste A quo tum appellatus nusquam est. qua aestimatione litium in qua Postumi mentio facta nulla est. qua lege qua non tenetur. hic iam, iudices, vestri consili res est…
Cicero, pro Rabirio Postumo
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…, praesertim cum integram rem et causam reliquerim. reliqua sunt domestica. de ἐνδομύχῳ probo idem quod tu, Postumiae filio, quoniam Pontidia nugatur. sed vellem adesses. a Quinto fratre his mensibus nihil exspectaris ; nam Taurus…
Cicero, Epistulae ad Atticum
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…; quaereres in iudiciis fortasse melius, in re publica quod erat esse iudicares satis. Ne T. quidem Postumius contemnendus in dicendo ; de re publica vero non minus vehemens orator quam bellator fuit, effrenatus et acer nimis…
M. Tullius Cicero, Brutus
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…P. SERVILIO CONLEGAE S. P. C. Curtius Mithres est ille quidem, ut scis, libertus Postumi, familiarissimi mei, sed me colit et observat aeque is atque illum ipsum patronum suum. apud eum ego…
Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares
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…. post diem tertium eius diei cum ab Athenis proficisci in animo haberem, circiter hora decima noctis P. Postumius, familiaris eius, ad me venit et mihi nuntiavit M. Marcellum, conlegam nostrum, post cenae tempus…
Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares
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…cautus ; nam occultandi ratio cum difficilis tum etiam periculosa est. Servium exspecto ad Nonas, et adigit ita Postumia et Servius Flius. quartanam leviorem esse gaudeo. misi ad te Caeli etiam litterarum exemplum. Scr. Intimili…
Cicero, Epistulae ad Atticum
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…potuit parari. cataplus ille Puteolanus, sermo illius temporis, vectorumque cursus atque ostentatio, tum subinvisum apud malivolos Postumi nomen propter opinionem pecuniae nescio quam aestatem unam, non pluris, auris refersit istis sermonibus. verum autem ,…
Cicero, pro Rabirio Postumo
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…quod cum fecissent, permulti saepe vicerunt. hoc vero novum et ante hoc tempus omnino inauditum. in litibus Postumi nomen est nusquam. in litibus dico ; modo vos idem in A. Gabinium iudices sedistis ; num quis…
Cicero, pro Rabirio Postumo
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…oportet quo modo, nec fabellas aniles proferas. Tum Lucilius An tibi inquit fabellae videntur nonne ab A. Postumio aedem Castori et Polluci in foro dedicatam, nonne senatus consultum de Vatinio vides nam de Sagra Graecorum etiam est…
M. Tullius Cicero, de Natura Deorum
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…te exspectabo ; tu, quod tuo commodo fiat, quam primum velim venias, sicut intellexi et Servio et Postumiae placere. vale. Scr. Romae ante vi K. intercal. priores a. . M. CICERO…
Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares