Farewell, I go to Gaul to encounter Postumus.

" "How has it all come about?" "Oh, news comes of the death of Postumus, killed by his own soldiers, and this passes as a great victory for want of a better, 'We must have a day of thanksgiving,' says Theocles.

In the following year Postumus Cominius and Titus Larcius were consuls.

During the secession of the commons, Spurius Cassius and Postumus Cominius entered on the consulship.

And so much did Marcius by his valour eclipse the reputation of the consul, that, had not the treaty concluded with the Latins by Spurius Cassius alone, in consequence of the absence of his colleagues, and which was engraved on a brazen column, served as a memorial of it, it would have been forgotten that Postumus Cominius had conducted the war with the Volscians.

[Footnote 1: Undoubtedly C. Vibius POSTUMUS is the person meant.]

It is a story which has luckily been preserved in Cicero's speech in defence of a certain Rabirius Postumus in the year 54, who was accused under Caesar's law de pecuniis repetundis (extortion in the provinces).

[Footnote 114: Cicero, in his defence of Rabirius Postumus, 2.4, says that Rabirius' father magnas partes habuit publicorum.

His son, Primus Postumus Petherton, born, as his second name suggests, after his father's death, carried on the line.

I touch a spring and out comes Primus Postumus Petherton.