Lucius Volusius Saturninus (consul 3)
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Lucius Volusius Saturninus (38/37 BC – 56 AD)
Biography
Early life
Saturninus was the son of
Career
His career is known from three inscriptions recovered from Nin in the Dalmatian region of Croatia.[5] They present some difficulties. They are in fragmentary condition, but their pieces supplement each other allowing the gaps in their texts to be restored. Further, these inscriptions only document all but one of the offices he held after he was consul -- the last one is known from literary sources -- and the entries appear to be out of chronological order.
Saturninus was elected
Following his return to Rome, Saturninus obtained the religious title of
Reputation and posthumous honors
When Saturninus died at the age of 93, according to Tacitus, he had accumulated a conspicuous fortune, had an honorable reputation, and through wisdom avoided the malevolence of many of the emperors.[1] When he died, the Senate, under the sponsorship of Emperor Nero, ordered a state funeral and the erection of a number of statues throughout Rome. The statues included a bronze one in the Forum of Augustus, two marble statues in the temple of the Deified Augustus, one consular statue in the temple of the Deified Julius, another on the Palatium intra Tripylum, a third in the forecourt of Apollo in sight of the curia, a statue as Augur, an equestrian statue and a statue on a curule chair sitting near the Theatre of Pompey.[9]
Descendants
Saturninus married the aristocrat Cornelia Lentula, the daughter of the consul of 3 BC, Lucius Cornelius Lentulus.[10] Cornelia bore Saturninus two sons: Lucius Volusius Saturninus, who became pontiff, and Quintus Volusius Saturninus, consul of 56.[11]
References
- ^ Annales, XIII.30
- ^ a b Pliny the Elder, Natural History VII.62
- ^ Ronald Syme, The Augustan Aristocracy (Oxford: Clarendon Press, (1986), p. 56
- ISBN 9780198147312.
- ^ CIL III, 2974, CIL III, 2975, CIL III, 2976
- ^ Alison E. Cooley, The Cambridge Manual of Latin Epigraphy (Cambridge: University Press, 2012), p. 458
- ^ Syme, Augustan Aristocracy, p. 192
- ^ Syme, Augustan Aristocracy, p. 333 n. 32
- Journal of Roman Studies, 61 (1971), pp. 142-144
- ^ Barbara Levick, Tiberius the Politician (London: Routledge, 1999), p. 53
- ^ Rudolf Hanslik, "Q. Volusius Saturninus 20", Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft, Supplement 9A, col. 1863