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Postumia (gens)
The ''gens Postumia'' was one of the most ancient patrician ''gentes'' at Rome. Its members frequently held the highest office of the state, from the banishment of the kings to the downfall of the Republic. The first of the Postumii who obtained the consulship was Publius Postumius Tubertus in 505 BC, four years after the expulsion of the kings.〔''Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology'', William Smith, Editor〕
==Origin of the gens==
The ''nomen Postumius'' is a patronymic surname, derived from the ''praenomen Postumus'', which presumably belonged to the ancestor of the ''gens''. That name was derived from the same source as the Latin adjective, ''postremus'', meaning "last" or "hindmost," and was originally given to a last-born or youngest child. It was not related to the modern word ''posthumous'', although coïncidentally the meaning of the name would also be appropriate for a child born after the death of his father.〔George Davis Chase, "The Origin of Roman Praenomina", in ''Harvard Studies in Classical Philology'', vol. VIII (1897)〕
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