Quintus Volusius Saturninus (Consul 56)

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Quintus Volusius Saturninus (* around 25 AD; † after 70 AD) was a senator during the early Imperial period in the Roman Empire . He was consul and legate under Emperor Nero .

Quintus Volusius Saturninus came from the plebeian family of the Volusii ( Gens Volusia ), from which some praetors and senators had emerged. His great-grandfather was Quintus Volusius Saturninus , who had served as prefect under Cicero . His grandfather Lucius Volusius Saturninus (around 60 BC - 20 AD) was named Homo novus 12 BC. . AD under Emperor Augustus to Suffektkonsul ascended. His father Lucius Volusius Saturninus (38 BC - 56 AD) also became a consul consul in 3 AD. In his honor, several statues were erected in public places in Rome after his death. The country residence of the Volusii Saturnini family was the Villa dei Volusii near Lucus Feroniae .

Quintus Volusius Saturninus was born when his father was 62 years old. Therefore, the year of his birth is to be set around 25 AD. He had an older brother, the pontiff Lucius Volusius Saturninus , who, according to Roman custom, was the firstborn to take his father's name. Quintus Volusius Saturninus was married to Nonia Torquata. Her two sons, the first-born Lucius , named after their probably childless uncle Lucius, and Quintus , became consuls in 87 AD and 92 AD under Emperor Domitian . Quintus Volusius Saturninus and Nonia Torquata probably also had at least one daughter, Volusia Torquata, who was long considered the mother of Licinia Cornelia Volusia Torquata .

The political career of Quintus Volusius Saturninus is only known from the point at which he was appointed consul with Publius Cornelius Scipio in 56 AD, i.e. the year his father died . In 61 AD he carried out a census in Gaul together with Titus Sextius Africanus , consul suffect in AD 59, and Marcus Trebellius Maximus , consul suffect in AD 55 and later governor of Britain . Saturninus and Africanus were rivals, but they shared a mutual dislike for Maximus, who used their rivalry to his advantage. Saturninus, Africanus and Maximus were apparently responsible for the census as legates in one of the three Gallic provinces , with Saturninus being responsible for the province of Belgica .

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Since Quintus Volusius Saturninus, in contrast to his father and grandfather, was appointed full consul and his son was honored at a young age, which is only due to a patrician, one can assume that Quintus himself has already been made patrician , and probably under Emperor Claudius in AD 48

Quintus Volusius Saturninus was also a member of several Roman priesthoods , including the Sodales Augustales , the Sodales Titii and the Fratres Arvales , as evidenced by inscriptions from AD 55 and AD 63 and an inscription from the Villa dei Volusii. His father had already been a member of the Sodales Augustales and the Sodales Titii, so that Quintus Volusius Saturninus perhaps succeeded his father as a priest in these colleges.

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 (?)
 

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pliny : Naturalis historia VII, 12, 62.
  2. ↑ a b Stephen Wilson: The Means Of Naming: A Social History. UCL Press, London 1998, ISBN 1857282450 , p. 18.
  3. ^ Tacitus , Annales 13:25 .
  4. ↑ Tacitus, Annales 13:19 and 14:46.
  5. ↑ Werner Eck : The family of the Volusii Saturnini in new inscriptions from Lucus Feroniae . In: Hermes . Vol. 100, Issue 3 (1972), p. 475.
  6. ↑ Werner Eck: The family of the Volusii Saturnini in new inscriptions from Lucus Feroniae . In: Hermes . Vol. 100, Issue 3 (1972), p. 483.
  7. ↑ Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum CIL 06, 32352
  8. ^ Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum CIL 06, 02043
  9. ↑ L'Année épigraphique AE 1972, 00175
  10. ↑ Werner Eck: The family of the Volusii Saturnini in new inscriptions from Lucus Feroniae . In: Hermes . Vol. 100, Issue 3 (1972), p. 476.
personal data
SURNAME Volusius Saturninus, Quintus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Saturninus, Quintus Volusius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman senator and consul
DATE OF BIRTH at 25
DATE OF DEATH at 70