Lucius Volusius Saturninus (suffect consul)

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Lucius Volusius Saturninus (died 20) was a Roman senator that lived during the 1st century BC and 1st century. Saturninus came from an ancient and distinguished senatorial family the never rose above the praetorship. Saturninus had a sister called Volusia Saturnina who married Marcus Lollius Paulinus a man of consular rank. Volusia and Paulinus had two daughters, Lollia Paulina, who became Emperor Caligula’s third wife and Lollia Saturnina who married the consul Decimus Valerius Asiaticus.

He became consul in 12 BC. Saturninus held censorial functions for selection for the knights as members of the judicature. He became the first person in his family to amass his wealth, which his family became greatly conspicuous.

He married a Roman woman called Nonia Polla. They had two children: consul Lucius Volusius Saturninus and a daughter Volusia was married to a man named Cornelius.

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• Tacitus, The Annals of Imperial Rome