Lucius Volusius Saturninus (suffect consul 3)

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Lucius Volusius Saturninus (* 38 BC ; † 56 AD) was a Roman senator of the early Imperial period.

He was the son of Lucius Volusius Saturninus , suffect consul in 12 BC. BC, and Nonia Polla. Saturninus had a sister, Volusia, and was married to a Cornelia. His two sons were the pontiff Lucius Volusius Saturninus and the consul of the year 56 AD, Quintus Volusius Saturninus . Together with his sons he owned a columbarium on the Via Appia . He had an impeccable reputation and a large but legally made fortune. To honor him, the Senate gave a state funeral at Nero's expense after his death and erected several statues in large temples, theaters and other public buildings in Rome, including a bronze one in the Augustus Forum , two made of marble in the Temple of the Divine Augustus , one in the Temple of Divus Iulius , one on the Palatine Hill by the Tripylum Gate , another in the forecourt of the Temple of Apollo , looking at the Iulia Curia , another statue depicting him as an augur, another equestrian statue and a statue on a sella curulis near the Theater of Pompey .

Career
Office year
augur until 56 AD
Suffect consul 03
Proconsul of Asia 09-10
Sodalis Augustalis and Sodalis Titii 14-56
Legatus Augusti pro praetore , probably from Illyricum 14-15
Legatus Augusti per praetore of Dalmatia 34-50
City Prefect of Rome approx. 42-56

family tree

Quintus Volusius Saturninus
(Prefect)
 
 Claudia
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Lucius Volusius Saturninus
(suffect consul 12 BC)
 
 Nonia Polla
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Lucius Volusius Saturninus
(suffect consul 3 AD)
 
 Cornelia
 
 Volusia
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Lucius Volusius Saturninus
(Pontifex)
 
 Quintus Volusius Saturninus
(consul 56 AD)
 
 Nonia Torquata
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Lucius Volusius Saturninus
(consul 87 AD)
 
 Licinia Cornelia Volusia Torquata (?)
 
 Quintus Volusius Saturninus
(consul 92 AD)
 
 Volusia Torquata (?)
 

proof

  1. ↑ Susan Treggiari, Family Life among the Staff of the Volusii , in: Transactions of the American Philological Association , Vol. 105, 1975, pp 393-401.
  2. ^ Tacitus, Annales 13, 30, 2 and 14, 56, 1.
  3. ↑ Werner Eck : The family of the Volusii Saturnini in new inscriptions from Lucus Feroniae , in: Hermes 100, 1972, pp. 461-484.
  4. ↑ Fasti Capitolini in: Attilio Degrassi : Inscriptiones Italiae XIII 1, p. 60 f .; Nearly. Gab., Ibid. P. 258; Nearly. Arv., Ibid. P. 298; CIL 3, 2974 ; CIL 10.824 ; CIL 15,571
  5. ^ Inscriptiones Graecae ad res Romanas pertinentes 4, 429.
  6. ↑ CIL 3, 2975 .
  7. ↑ CIL 3, 2975 .
  8. ↑ CIL 3, 2882 , CIL 3, 2974 , CIL 3, 2976 , CIL 3, 9872 and CIL 3, 12794 .
  9. ↑ Pliny, Naturalis historia 7, 12.

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personal data
SURNAME Volusius Saturninus, Lucius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Saturninus, Lucius Volusius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman suffect consul in the year 8
DATE OF BIRTH 38 BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 56