Lucius Volusius Saturninus (suffect consul 12 BC)

Lucius Quintus Volusius Saturninus,^[1] also known as Lucius Volusius Saturninus^[2] (about 60 BC^[3]-20 AD^[4]) was a notable Roman Senator.

Volusius came from an ancient and distinguished Senatorial family, that never rose above the Praetorship.^[5] He was of eques status.^[6] Volusius was the son born to Quintus Volusius a Prefect who served under Cicero in 51 BC to 50 BC in Cilicia^[7] and was a pupil of his in oratory.^[8] The mother of Volusius was a woman called Claudia, who was the daughter of Pompey’s officer Drusus Claudius Nero, sister of Praetor Tiberius Claudius Nero who was the aunt of the Roman emperor Tiberius^[9] and his brother, the Roman General Nero Claudius Drusus. His sister was Volusia Saturnina.^[10][11]

Volusius served as a suffect consul in 12 BC.^[12] He held censorial functions for the selection of knights as members of the judicature and became the first person in his family to amass his wealth, for which his family became greatly conspicuous.^[13]

Volusius served on the staff of Publius Quinctilius Varus when he served as a Roman Governor of the Africa Province at an unknown date from approximately 9/8 BC to 4 BC. From 4 to 5, Volusius served as a Roman Governor of Syria.^[14] Based on inscriptional evidence, the Horrea Volusiana was either built by Volusius or his grandson Quintus Volusius Saturninus, consul in 56.^[15]

Volusius married Nonia Polla the daughter of the consul, Lucius Nonius Asprenas. Polla bore Volusius a son, Lucius Volusius Saturninus and a daughter, Volusia who married a certain Cornelius.^[16]

References

1. Romeins Imperium – Lucius Quintus Volusius Saturninus translated from Dutch to English
2. Tacitus, Annals: Part Two: Claudius & Nero – 10. The Mother of Nero
3. Romeins Imperium – Lucius Quintus Volusius Saturninus translated from Dutch to English
4. Tacitus, Annals: Part One: Tiberius, Chapter 6 - Tiberius and the Senate
5. Tacitus, Annals: Part One: Tiberius, Chapter 6 - Tiberius and the Senate
6. Genealogy of Volusius Saturninus by D.C. O’Driscoll
7. Romeins Imperium – Lucius Quintus Volusius Saturninus translated from Dutch to English
8. Quintus Volusius no.2 article at ancient library
9. Romeins Imperium – Lucius Quintus Volusius Saturninus translated from Dutch to English
10. Genealogy of Volusius Saturninus by D.C. O’Driscoll
11. Rickman, Roman Granaries and Store Buildings, p.169
12. Romeins Imperium – Lucius Quintus Volusius Saturninus translated from Dutch to English
13. Tacitus, Annals: Part One: Tiberius, Chapter 6 - Tiberius and the Senate
14. Romeins Imperium – Lucius Quintus Volusius Saturninus translated from Dutch to English
15. Rickman, Roman Granaries and Store Buildings, p.169
16. Genealogy of Volusius Saturninus by D.C. O’Driscoll

Sources

• Tacitus - The Annals of Imperial Rome
• Quintus Volusius no.2 article at ancient library
• Prosopographia Imperii Romani Saec I, Berlin, 1897–1898, V 660.
• Romeins Imperium – Lucius Quintus Volusius Saturninus translated from Dutch to English
• Genealogy of Volusius Saturninus by D.C. O’Driscoll
• G. Rickman, Roman Granaries and Store Buildings, CUP Archive, 1971
• B.E. Thomasson, Fasti Africani, Senatorische und ritterliche Ämter in den römischen Provinzen Nordafrikas von Augustus bis Diokletian, Paul Aströms Förlag, 1996

External links

• Coinage of Lucius Volusius Saturninus