Lucius Volusius Saturninus was a

Suffect consul A consul held the highest elected political office of the Roman Republic ( to 27 BC), and ancient Romans considered the consulship the second-highest level of the ''cursus honorum'' (an ascending sequence of public offices to which politic ...

and

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who lived in the

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in the second half of the 1st century and possibly in the first half of the 2nd century. He is known only through inscriptions. Saturninus was the grandson of Lucius Volusius Saturninus, consul in 87; the name of his father, which is nowhere attested, is thought to have been Lucius Volusius Torquatus. Saturninus married his cousin

Licinia Cornelia Volusia Torquata Licinia Cornelia Volusia Torquata also known as Cornelia Volusia Torquata Licinia was a noble Roman woman who lived in the Roman Empire in the second half of the 1st century and first half of the 2nd century. Family background and early life Torqu ...

. Her funerary inscription, now on display at the

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,Funerary inscription of Licinia Cornelia Volusia Torquata
/ref> attests to his offices. Marcus Metilius Aquillius Regulus Nepos Volusius Torquatus Fronto who served as a consul in 157, is thought to be their descendant.

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Funerary inscription of Licinia Cornelia Volusia Torquata
*J. Elsner & J. Huskinson ''Life, Death and Representation: Some New Work on Roman Sarcophagi'', Walter de Gruyter, 2011 {{DEFAULTSORT:Volusius Saturninus, Lucius 1st-century Romans 2nd-century Romans Augurs of the Roman Empire Suffect consuls of Imperial Rome Saturninus, Lucius (Augur)