=Albānus=, a mountain with a lake in Italy, 16 miles from Rome, near Alba. It was on this mountain that the _Latinæ feriæ_ were celebrated with great solemnity. _Horace_, bk. 2, ltr. 1, li. 27. The word, taken adjectively, is applied to such as are natives of, or belong to, the town of Alba. =Albia Terennia=, the mother of Otho. _Suetonius._ =Albīci=, a people of Gallia Aquitania. _Cæsar_, _Civil War_, bk. 1, ch. 34. =Albiētæ=, a people of Latium. _Dionysius of Halicarnassus._ =Albigaunum=, a town of Liguria. _Mela_, bk. 2, ch. 4. =Albīni=, two Roman orators of great merit, mentioned by Cicero in _Brutus_. This name is common to many tribunes of the people. _Livy_, bk. 2, ch. 33; bk. 6, ch. 30. _Sallust_, _Jugurthine War_. =Albinovānus Celsus.= _See:_ Celsus.――――Pedo, a poet contemporary with Ovid. He wrote elegies, epigrams, and heroic poetry in a style so elegant that he merited the epithet of divine. _Ovid_, _ex Ponto_, bk. 4, poem 10.――_Quintilian_, bk. 10, ch. 5. =Albintemēlium=, a town of Liguria. _Tacitus_, bk. 2, _Histories_, ch. 13. =Albīnus=, was born at Adrumetum in Africa, and made governor of Britain by Commodus. After the murder of Pertinax, he was elected emperor by the soldiers in Britain. Severus had also been invested with the imperial dignity by his own army; and these two rivals, with about 50,000 men each, came into Gaul to decide the fate of the empire. Severus was conqueror, and he ordered the head of Albinus to be cut off, and his body to be thrown into the Rhone, A.D. 198. Albinus, according to the exaggerated account of a certain writer called Codrus, was famous for his voracious appetite, and sometimes ate for breakfast no less than 500 figs, 100 peaches, 20 pounds of dry raisins, 10 melons, and 400 oysters.――――A pretorian sent to Sylla, as ambassador from the senate during the civil wars. He was put to death by Sylla’s soldiers. _Plutarch_, _Sulla_.――――An usurer. _Horace._――――A Roman plebeian who received the vestals into his chariot in preference to his family, when they fled from Rome, which the Gauls had sacked. _Valerius Maximus_, bk. 1, ch. 1.――_Livy_, bk. 5, ch. 40.――_Florus_, bk. 1, ch. 13.――――Aulus Posthumus, consul with Lucullus, A.U.C. 603, wrote a history of Rome in Greek. =Albion=, son of Neptune by Amphitrite, came into Britain, where he established a kingdom, and first introduced astrology and the art of building ships. He was killed at the mouth of the Rhone, with stones thrown by Jupiter, because he opposed the passage of Hercules. _Mela_, bk. 2, ch. 5.――――The greatest island of Europe, now called Great Britain. It is called after Albion, who is said to have reigned there; or from its chalky white (_albus_) rocks, which appear at a great distance. _Pliny_, bk. 4, ch. 16.――_Tacitus_, _Agricola_. The ancients compared its figure to a long buckler, or to the iron of a hatchet.