Gnaeus Sentius Saturninus (Consul 41)

Gnaeus Sentius Saturninus († probably 66) was a Roman politician and senator .

Saturninus came from a patrician family from Atina in Latium and was a son of the suffect consul of the same name in AD 4.Saturninus was aedile and praetor urbanus in 37 , before he held the ordinary consulate with the emperor Caligula in 41 .

After the assassination of Caligula by Cassius Chaerea , Saturninus tried together with his colleague Quintus Pomponius Secundus to restore the republic, while the Praetorians proclaimed Claudius emperor. Nevertheless, in the year 43 Claudius took Saturninus with him as a comes to Britain, where he achieved military successes. He was rewarded with the ornamenta triumphalia for his services . Saturninus was executed or forced to commit suicide under Emperor Nero . He fell into the damnatio memoriae . It took place in the year 66, so it will probably be different this year. Saturninus was a member of the priestly college of the Quindecimviri sacris faciundis and a friend of the future emperor Vespasian .

literature

Gerhard Winkler : Sentius II. 4. In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 5, Stuttgart 1975, Col. 121.
Werner Eck : Sentius II 7. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 11, Metzler, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-476-01481-9 , column 425.
Prosopographia Imperii Romani (PIR )² S 396

Remarks

^ Suetonius , Claudius 10 .; Cassius Dio , Roman History 60,1,4.
^ Tacitus , Historien 4,7.

personal data
SURNAME	Sentius Saturninus, Gnaeus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Saturninus, Gaius Sentius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Roman consul
DATE OF BIRTH	1st century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	at 66

[1] Suetonius , Claudius 10 .; Cassius Dio , Roman History 60,1,4.

[2] Tacitus , Historien 4,7.