Quintus Volusius Saturninus

The Volusii, according to Tacitus, were an ancient and distinguished Senatorial family who never rose above the praetorship until Saturninus' grandfather, Lucius Volusius Saturninus, achieved that distinction.Tacitus, Annales, iii.30 Saturninus' father, also named Lucius Volusius Saturninus, not only acceded to that office, but received a state funeral under the Emperor Nero and Cornelia Lentula.Joyce Reynolds, [https://www.jstor.org/stable/300013 "Roman Inscriptions 1966-1970"], Journal of Roman Studies, 61 (1971), pp. 142-144 Saturninus is known to have an elder brother, Lucius Volusius Saturninus, and a sister, Volusia Cornelia.Barbara Levick, Tiberius the Politician (London: Routledge, 1999), p. 53

He inherited the great Villa dei Volusii near Lucus Feroniae which had been in the family since the 1st c. BC and was probably acquired by the emperor after his death.Boenzi, Giuliana et al. (1997). Terra di Fiano : ricerche di storia, arte, archeologia. Quasar p. 59

Surviving inscriptions indicate that a burial club of his slaves and freedmen operated a columbarium on the Appian Way.Susan Treggiari, [https://www.jstor.org/stable/283951 "Family Life Among the Staff of the Volusii"], Transactions of the American Philological Association, 105 (1975), pp. 393-401 Tacitus describes Saturninus as a man of aristocratic status.

The political career of Saturninus is only known from the point he achieved the consulate. In 61–63, he carried out a census in Gaul, together with Titus Sextius Africanus and Marcus Trebellius Maximus. Saturninus and Africanus were rivals; however, they both hated Maximus, who took advantage of their rivalry to get the better of them.Tacitus, Annales xiii. 19, xiv. 46 Based on inscriptions, the Horrea Volusiana was either built by his paternal grandfather Lucius Volusius Saturninus, suffect consul of 12 BC, or Saturninus himself.Rickman, Roman Granaries and Store Buildings, p.169

An inscription attests that Saturninus was also a member of several Roman priesthoods.{{AE|1975|175}} These were the sodales Augustales, the sodales Titii, and the enigmatic Arval Brethren. Another inscription attests to Saturninus' presence at their ceremonies in the year 63.{{CIL|6|2043}}

Saturninus married a woman called Torquata; her name is known to us from the tombstone of one of her slaves.{{CIL|6|7297}} Torquata bore Saturninus the following children:Rudolf Hanslik, "Saturninus (20)", Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft, Supplement 9A, col. 1863

• Son, Lucius Volusius Saturninus, consul in 87
• Daughter, Volusia Torquata; she is thought to have married a Marcus Licinius whose name is inferred from their surmised granddaughter Licinia Cornelia M.f. Volusia Torquata.{{CIL|6|31726}}
• Son, Quintus Volusius Saturninus, consul in 92

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• Tacitus - The Annals of Imperial Rome
• G. Rickman, Roman Granaries and Store Buildings, CUP Archive, 1971
• Susan Treggiari, "Family Life among the Staff of the Volusii", Transactions of the American Philological Association, 105 (1974-1975)

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Saturninus, Quintus

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