Quintus Futius Lusius Saturninus was a Roman 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.[1] Tacitus 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.[2] Seneca the Younger 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.[3]

These literary sources from the Principate 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.[4] 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.[5] 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.[6]

References

  1. ^ Alison E. Cooley, The Cambridge Manual of Latin Epigraphy (Cambridge: University Press, 2012), p. 460
  2. ^ Tacitus, Annales, XIII.42
  3. ^ Seneca, Apocolocyntosis divi Claudii, 13
  4. ^ CIL III, 2028
  5. ^ Olli Salomies, Adoptive and polyonymous nomenclature in the Roman Empire, (Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 1992), p. 90
  6. ^ CIL III, 2028
Political offices Preceded byQuintus Pomponius Secundus,and Gnaeus Sentius Saturninus Suffect consul of the Roman Empire 41with Marcus Seius Varanus Succeeded byQuintus Ostorius Scapula, and Publius Suillius Rufusas suffect consuls
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