Editing Clodius Albinus (section)

==Personal life==
It is said that he wrote a treatise on agriculture and a collection of [[Milesian tale]]s.<ref>[[Cassius Dio]], lxx. 4–7</ref><ref>[[Herodian]], ii. 15, iii. 5–7</ref>

The name of Albinus' wife is unknown,{{Efn|In the past some have thought that she might have been Pescennia Plautiana;<ref>{{Cite book|title=Claudii Chifletii ... De antiquo nummo ... liber posthumus ... hac tertia editione, parte quoque secunda et tertia auctus: eo fini, ut ad hanc regulam et stateram, examinari, censeri et probari possit, Nummophylacium illud Luederianum Hamburgense, incredibili diligentia et sumpta comparatum ... prodit accurante Rudolfo Capello|last=Chifflet|first=Claude|year=1678|pages=10|language=French}}</ref> this name has also been ascribed to a possible wife or daughter of Pescennius Niger. The woman may be entirely fictional and created by [[Coin counterfeiting|coin forgers]].<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Numismatic Chronicle and Journal of the Royal Numismatic Society|publisher=Royal Numismatic Society|year=1875|pages=34–40|volume=15–16}}</ref> Anthony Birley has proposed that she may have been an [[Asellia gens|Asellia]], a relative of [[Asellius Aemilianus]].<ref>{{Cite book |title=The Fasti of Roman Britain |last=Birley |first=Anthony |publisher=Clarendon Press |year=1981 |isbn=9780198148210 |pages=149}}</ref> Alexander Mlasowsky and Dietmar Kienast also found this plausible.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Imago imperatoris: römische Kaiserbildnisse einer norddeutschen Sammlung |last=Mlasowsky |first=Alexander |publisher=Biering & Brinkmann |year=2001 |isbn=9783930609307 |pages=272 |series=Schriften der Archäologischen Sammlung Freiburg |volume=6}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |title=Römische Kaisertabelle: Grundzüge einer römischen Kaiserchronologie |last=Kienast |first=Dietmar |publisher=Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft |year=1996 |isbn=9783534132898 |pages=161 |edition=Second}}</ref>}} and only the unreliable ''[[Historia Augusta]]'' mention any name for his sons,<ref>{{Cite book|title=Coins of the Roman Empire in the British Museum|author=British Museum. Dept. of Coins and Medals|publisher=Trustees of the British Museum|year=1965|pages=105|volume=5}}</ref> claiming that he had an infant son named Pescennius Princus,{{Efn|The name "Princus" may have been a mistake for Prineus, Primus or Priscus.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Contributions to the criticism of our literary tradition for the period from Commodus' fall to the death of M. Aurelius Antoninus (Caracalla)|last=Schulz|first=Otto Theodor|publisher=Scientia-Verlag|year=1984|isbn=9783511072612|pages=77}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=Historische Zeitschrift|last=von Sybel|first=Heinrich|publisher=Cott'sche Buchhandlung|year=1897|pages=457}}</ref>}} but some historians such as [[Anthony Birley]] hold that this name is fictitious.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Fasti of Roman Britain|last=Birley|first=Anthony|publisher=Clarendon Press|year=1981|isbn=9780198148210|pages=149}}</ref>