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The Volusia gens was an ancient Roman family.


Members

* Marcus Volusius, aedile 43 BC; he had been proscribed, but managed to escape in sacerdotal vestments borrowed from a friend who was a votary of the goddess Isis. * Volusius Vorenius, a centurion associated with
Julius Caesar Gaius Julius Caesar (; ; 12 July 100 BC – 15 March 44 BC), was a Roman general and statesman. A member of the First Triumvirate, Caesar led the Roman armies in the Gallic Wars before defeating his political rival Pompey in a civil war, and ...
* Volusius, an annalist mentioned in the
poetry of Catullus The poetry of Gaius Valerius Catullus was written towards the end of the Roman Republic. It describes the lifestyle of the poet and his friends, as well as, most famously, his love for the woman he calls Lesbia. Sources and organization Catul ...
* Volusius Proculus, assassinated empress Agrippina and associated with Epicharis of the
Pisonian conspiracy The conspiracy of Gaius Calpurnius Piso in AD 65 was a in the reign of the Roman emperor Nero (reign 54–68). The plot reflected the growing discontent among the ruling class of the Roman state with Nero's increasingly despotic leadership, a ...
of 65 *
Lucius Volusius Maecianus Lucius Volusius Maecianus (c. 110 – 175) was a Roman jurist, who advised the Emperor Antoninus Pius on legal matters, as well educating his son the future Marcus Aurelius in the subject. Originally of the equestrian class, Maecianus held a ...
, jurist in the second century and father-in-law of the usurper
Avidius Cassius Gaius Avidius Cassius ( 130 – July 175 AD) was a Syrian Roman general and usurper. He was born in Cyrrhus, and was the son of Gaius Avidius Heliodorus, who served as ''praefectus'' or governor of Roman Egypt, and Julia Cassia Alexandra, who w ...
* Volusia Vettia Maeciana, wife of the usurper
Avidius Cassius Gaius Avidius Cassius ( 130 – July 175 AD) was a Syrian Roman general and usurper. He was born in Cyrrhus, and was the son of Gaius Avidius Heliodorus, who served as ''praefectus'' or governor of Roman Egypt, and Julia Cassia Alexandra, who w ...
*
Quintus Volusius Flaccus Cornelianus Quintus Volusius Flaccus Cornelianus was a Roman Senator who lived during the 2nd century. He was ordinary consul in 174 as the colleague of Lucius Aurelius Gallus. Little is known on his origins and life. Cornelianus was a member of the gens Vo ...
, consul of 174 *
Volusius Venustus Volusius Venustus (''floruit'' 4th century) was an aristocrat of the Roman Empire. Biography Volusius Venustus set up a monument in the forum of Canosa in honour of Constantine I and his two sons (the fact that only two sons are honoured means ...
, politician of the fourth century * Lucius Volusius Successus, whose mausoleum is underneath the
Vatican Necropolis The Vatican Necropolis lies under the Vatican City, at depths varying between 5–12 metres below Saint Peter's Basilica. The Vatican sponsored archaeological excavations (also known by their Italian name ''scavi'') under Saint Peter's in the ye ...


Volusii Saturnini

* Quintus Volusius (Saturninus), prefect of Cicero from 51 BC to 50 BC, married Claudia the aunt of emperor
Tiberius Tiberius Julius Caesar Augustus (; 16 November 42 BC – 16 March AD 37) was the second Roman emperor. He reigned from AD 14 until 37, succeeding his stepfather, the first Roman emperor Augustus. Tiberius was born in Rome in 42 BC. His father ...
Claudius patrician
Strachan stemma.
* Lucius Volusius Saturninus, cousin of emperor Tiberius and suffect consul of 12 BC *
Volusia Saturnina Volusia Saturnina also known from her funeral inscription as Volusia Latina Saturnina 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. Family background Saturni ...
, daughter of the consul and mother of empress
Lollia Paulina Lollia Paulina, also known as Lollia PaullinaVolusius
Strachan stemma.
* Lucius Volusius Saturninus, suffect consul in AD 3 and lived over 90 years from 38 BC-AD 56 * Lucius Volusius Saturninus, a member of the College of Pontiffs who died in 55 *
Quintus Volusius Saturninus Quintus Volusius Saturninus (born AD 25) was a Roman Senator who lived in the Roman Empire during the Principate. He was consul in the year 56 with Publius Cornelius Scipio as his colleague. Family background The Volusii, according to Tacitus, ...
, consul of 56 *
Volusia Cornelia Volusia Cornelia,Marzano, ''Roman Villas in Central Italy: A Social and Economic History'', p. 196 also known as Cornelia Volusia was a Roman Empire, Roman woman of Patrician (ancient Rome), Patrician status who lived in the late 1st century. She w ...
, daughter of Quintus Volusius Saturninus consul of 56 * Lucius Volusius Saturninus, Augur and Suffect consul who lived in ca. 80 * Lucius Volusius Saturninus, consul of 87 *
Quintus Volusius Saturninus Quintus Volusius Saturninus (born AD 25) was a Roman Senator who lived in the Roman Empire during the Principate. He was consul in the year 56 with Publius Cornelius Scipio as his colleague. Family background The Volusii, according to Tacitus, ...
, consul of 92


See also

*
List of Roman gentes The gens (plural gentes) was a Roman family, of Italic or Etruscan origins, consisting of all those individuals who shared the same '' nomen'' and claimed descent from a common ancestor. It was an important social and legal structure in early ...
* Licinia Cornelia Volusia Torquata


References

{{Reflist Roman gentes