Volusia Saturnina

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Volusia Latina Saturnina
Spouse(s) Marcus Lollius
Children Lollia Saturnina
Lollia Paulina
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Volusia Saturnina also known from her funeral inscription as Volusia Latina Saturnina [1] was a Roman noble woman who lived in the Roman Empire in the second half of the 1st century BC and first half of the first century AD.

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Family background

Saturnina came from an ancient and distinguished Senatorial family, that never rose above the Praetorship [2] which was of eques status. [3]

She was the daughter of the suffect consul Lucius Volusius Saturninus by his wife Nonia Polla. [4] Volusia Saturnina was a first cousin once removed to Roman emperor Tiberius and his brother, the General Nero Claudius Drusus. [5] Her brother was the suffect consul Lucius Volusius Saturninus. [6]

Marriage and issue

Saturnina married Marcus Lollius, [7] the son of the consul and military leader Marcus Lollius [8] and his wife Aurelia. Aurelia was a sister to the Roman Senator Marcus Aurelius Cotta Maximus Messalinus. [9]

Saturnina and Lollius had two daughters: [8]

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References

  1. ↑ Hainzmann, Corpus inscriptionum Latinarum, p.718 & 894
  2. ↑ Tacitus, Annales, III.30
  3. ↑ Genealogy of Volusius Saturninus by D.C. O’Driscoll
  4. ↑ Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik (2001). ZPE. 136. University of Michigan: Habelt. p. 229.
  5. ↑ Ronald Syme, The Roman Revolution (Oxford: University Press, 1960), p. 424
  6. ↑ Syme, Ronald (1989). The Augustan Aristocracy (illustrated and revised ed.). Clarendon Press. pp. ?. ISBN   9780198147312.
  7. ↑ Rickman, Roman Granaries and Store Buildings, p. 169
  8. 1 2 Marcus Lollius’ article at Livius.org
  9. ↑ Syme, Roman Revolution, p. 178

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