Albinus

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

Albīnus, i, m., a Roman family name.

I The name of a Roman usurer , Hor. A. P. 327.—

II A. Postumius Albinus, censor, A. U. C. 580, Cic. Verr. 1, 41, 106; Liv. 41, 27.—

III Esp.: A. Postumius Albinus, who was consul with Lucullus a short time before the third Punic war , 603 A. U. C., and the author of a Roman Hist. in Greek , cf. Cic. Brut. 21, 81; id. Ac. 2 ( Luc. ), 45, 137; Gell. 11, 8; Macr. S. praef.

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