Quintus Volusius Saturninus was a Roman that lived in the 1st century and was a Roman

Roman Empire

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 senator during the reign of Nero

Nero

Nero , was Roman Emperor from 54 to 68, and the last in the Julio-Claudian dynasty. Nero was adopted by his great-uncle Claudius to become his heir and successor, and succeeded to the throne in 54 following Claudius' death....

 and was consul in 56. He was the son of the prominent senator Lucius Volusius Saturninus

Lucius Volusius Saturninus

Lucius Volusius Saturninus was a renowned Ancient Roman statesman, a son of Lucius Volusius Saturninus, suffect consul of 12 BC and Nonia Polla. Saturninus had a sister named Volusia who was married to a man named Cornelius. His two sons were Lucius Volusius Saturninus, who became pontifex...

 who received a state funeral under Nero. Emperor Caligula

Caligula

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's third wife, Lollia Paulina

Lollia Paulina

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 was his father's paternal cousin.

Political Career

In 61, he carried out duties as a censor in Gaul

Gaul

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, together with Titus Sextius Africanus

Titus Sextius Africanus

Titus Sextius Africanus was a nobleman of ancient Rome who was deterred by Agrippina the Younger from marrying Junia Silana. In 62 AD, he took the census in the provinces of Gaul, together with Quintus Volusius Saturninus and Marcus Trebellius Maximus. Saturninus and Africanus were rivals, and...

 and Marcus Trebellius Maximus

Marcus Trebellius Maximus

Marcus Trebellius Maximus was a Roman politician.He was consul in AD 56, and in 61 served on a commission to revise the census list and tax assessments in Gaul, together with Quintus Volusius Saturninus and Titus Sextius Africanus. Saturninus and Africanus were rivals, and both hated Trebellius,...

. Saturninus and Africanus were rivals, and both hated Trebellius Maximus, who took advantage of their rivalry to get the better of them. Tacitus

Tacitus

Publius Cornelius Tacitus was a senator and a historian of the Roman Empire. The surviving portions of his two major works—the Annals and the Histories—examine the reigns of the Roman Emperors Tiberius, Claudius, Nero and those who reigned in the Year of the Four Emperors...

 describes him as a man of 'aristocratic status'. Saturninus was probably also the father or grandfather to the younger Quintus Volusius Saturninus who was a senator and consul in 92 during the reign of Domitian

Domitian

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