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unusual facts about Postumius


Postumius

Lucius Postumius Megellus (4th-3rd centuries BC), two consuls of the gens Postumia


Battle of Lake Regillus

Postumius ordered a temple built in their honour in the Roman Forum, in the place where they had watered their horses.

Marcus Postumius Pyrgensis

Marcus Postumius, surnamed Pyrgensis, is described by Livius as a "farmer of the taxes" during the Second Punic War, whose character for avarice and fraud were equaled only by Titus Pomponius Veientanus.


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