Quintus Futius Lusius Saturninus was a

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senator, who lived during the reign of Claudius. He was suffect consul in the '' nundinium'' of September to October 41 with Marcus Seius Varanus as his colleague.

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lists Saturninus as one of the victims of the notorious Publius Suillius Rufus, whose prosecution on behalf of the emperor Claudius or his wives led to the deaths of a number of Senators and equites.

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mentions him in his '' Apocolocyntosis divi Claudii'' as one of his consular friends who confront Claudius in the afterworld as being responsible for their deaths. These literary sources from the

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refer to him by his last two names, Lusius Saturninus; his full name is known from an inscription found in Dalmatia dated to his consulate. Based on this evidence, Olli Salomies argues in his monograph on the naming practices of the Early Empire that his name indicates that he was born in the gens Lusia, but later adopted by a Quintus Futius. An inscription attests to the existence of a Quintus Futius, suffect consul with a Publius Calvisius in a '' nundinium'' in one of the years from AD 49 through 54.

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