Luci Saturninus

Background

Saturninus was the son of suffect consul Lucius Volusius Saturninus and Nonia Polla.

Career

Saturninus married the noblewoman Cornelia Lentula, the daughter of the consul of 3 British Columbia, Lucius Cornelius Lentulus. Cornelia bore Saturninus three sons who were: Lucius Volusius Saturninus who became a Pontifex Maximus, Quintus Volusius Saturninus who became a consul of 56 and an unnamed son.

Achievements

• Saturninus had a distinguished reputation, who was in good graces of all of the Roman emperors who avoided the malevolence of them and had a great fortune. He died at the age of 93. When he died, the Roman Senate under the sponsorship of Roman emperor Nero ordered a state funeral and the erection of a number of statues of him in major temples, theatres and civic buildings 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.