Lucius Volusius Saturninus (suffect consul 12 BC)

Dupondius with the head of Lucius Volusius Saturninus and the inscription L VOLVSIVS SATVR ACHVL

Lucius Volusius Saturninus (* around 60 BC; † 20 AD) was a Roman politician and senator .

Saturninus came from an ancient Praetorian family. His father was Quintus Volusius Saturninus , who was prefect in Cilicia in the service of Marcus Tullius Cicero . His wife was Nonia Pollia, daughter of the consul in 36 BC. BC, Lucius Nonius Asprenas. His son of the same name was a suffect consul in 3 AD , his daughter's name was Volusia.

In the year 12 BC Saturninus was together with the writer Gaius Valgius Rufus a suffect consul . As triumvir turmis equitum recognoscendis he was commissioned by Augustus to examine the knighthood . Between 11 BC And 2 AD (perhaps 7/6 BC) Saturninus was proconsul of the province of Africa , then around 4/5 AD legate of the province of Syria .

family tree

Claudia

Nonia Polla

Cornelia

Volusia

Nonia Torquata

Volusia Torquata (?)

Bengt E. Thomasson : Fasti Africani. Senatorial and knightly officials in the Roman provinces of North Africa from Augustus to Diocletian (= Skrifter utgivna av svenska institutet i Rom / Acta instituti romani regni sueciae. Volume 4 °, LIII). Paul Åström, Stockholm 1996, ISBN 91-7042-153-6 , p. 23.
Prosopographia Imperii Romani (PIR )² V 978

personal data
SURNAME	Volusius Saturninus, Lucius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Saturninus, Lucius Volusius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Roman suffect consul in 12 BC Chr.
DATE OF BIRTH	around 60 BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	20th