Gaius Vibius Postumus

Gaius Vibius Postumus was a Roman senator, who flourished under the reign of Augustus. He was suffect consul for the latter half of AD 5 with Gaius Ateius Capito as his colleague.[1] Ronald Syme identifies him as a novus homo from Lavinum in Apulia.[2] His brother Aulus Vibius Habitus was suffect consul in the latter half of AD 8.[3]

Postumus shared in the achievements of Lucius Apronius and earned the ornamenta triumphalia for his distinguished valor in the Dalmatian revolt.[4] He was also proconsular governor of Asia in the years 12 to 15.[5] One of the poems of the Palatine Anthology, attributed to Apollonides, refers to the construction of a temple to Aphrodite by a Postumus; Syme identifies its author as Apollonides of Nicaea, and the person responsible for the temple as Vibius Postumus, who had the temple erected during his governorship.[6]

References
  1. Alison E. Cooley, The Cambridge Manual of Latin Epigraphy (Cambridge: University Press, 2012), p. 458
  2. Syme, The Augustan Aristocracy (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986), p. 427
  3. Barbara Levick, Tiberius the Politician, revised edition (London: Routledge, 1999), p. 53
  4. Velleius Paterculus, Roman History, II.116
  5. Syme, Augustan Aristocracy, p. 312
  6. Syme, Augustan Aristocracy, p. 379
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