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till they died. The senate gave their sanction to porary of the younger Pliny, is praised by the
these proceedings by rewarding with the citizen- latter as a distinguished orator, historian, and poet
ship a slave of the name of Scaeva, who claimed (Plin. Ep. i. 8). Several of Pliny's letters are
the honour of having killed Saturninus. Nearly addressed to him. (Ep. i. 8, v. 9, vii. 7, 15,
forty years after these events, the tribune T. La- ix. 38.)
bienus, accused an aged senator Rabirius, of having SATURNI'NUS, SE'NTIUS. 1. C. SENbeen the murderer of Saturninus. An account of TIUS (SATURNTNUS), was propractor of Macedonia
this trial is given elsewhere. [RABIRIUS.] (Ap- during the Social war, and probably for some time
pian, B. C. i. 28-32; Plut. Miar. 28-30; Liv. afterwards. He defeated the Thracians, who had
Epit. 69; Oros. v. 17; Flor. iii. 16; Vell. Pat. ii. invaded his province with a large force, under their
12; Val. Max. ix. 7. ~ 3; Cic. Brut. 62, pro Sest. king Sothimus (Oros. v. 18, Sull. 11; Cic. Ferr.
47, pro C. Rabir. passim). iii. 93, in Pison. 34). The exact time during
4. L. APPJLEIUS SATURNINUS, was propraetor which he governed Macedonia is uncertain. If
of Macedonia in B. c. 58, when Cicero visited the the reading is correct in the Epitome of Livy
province after his banishment from Rome. Although (Epit. 70), he could not have been appointed later
a friend of Cicero, he did not venture to show him than B. c. 92, as none of the events recorded in
any marks of attention for fear of displeasing the the seventieth book were later than that year.
ruling party at Rome. It was only his quaestor It is said in the Epitome that he fought unsucPlancius who openly espoused the cause of the cessfully against the Thracians, but this is proexile. This Saturninus was a native of Atina, bably an error. It is, at all events, clear from
and was the first native of that praefectura who Plutarch (I. c.) that he was still governor of
had obtained a curule office. (Cic. pro Plane. 8, Macedonia in B. C. 88, when Sulla was in Greece.
11, 41.) Modern writers give him the cognomen Saturni5. CN. APPULEIUS SATURNINUS, the son of nus, as it was borne by most of the other Sentii,
No. 4, was present at the trial of Cn. Plancius, in but it does not occur in any of the ancient writers,
B. c. 54. During Cicero's absence in Cilicia, B. c. as far as we are aware.
50, he was accused by Cn. Domitius, as Caelius 2. C. SENTIUS SATURNINUS, was one of the
writes to Cicero (Cic. pro Plane. 8, 12, ad Farn. persons of distinguished rank who deserted Sex.
viii. 14). He is also mentioned by Cicero in B. C. Pompeius ill B. C. 35, and passed over to Octa43, as the heres of Q. Turius (ad Fam. xii. 26). vian (Vell. Pat. ii. 77; Appian, B. C. v. 139,
This Saturninus is probably the same as the one of comp. v. 52). He is no doubt the same as the
whom Valerius Maximus tells a scandalous tale Sentius Saturninus Vetulio, who was proscribed
(ix. 1. ~ 8). by the triumvirs in B. c. 43, and escaped to PomSATURNI'NUS, CLAU'DIUS, a jurist from peius in Sicily (Val. Max. vii. 3. ~ 9). The cirwhose Liber Singularis de Poenis Paganorumz there cumstances, however, which Valerius Maximus
is a single excerpt in the Digest (50. tit. 19. s. 16). relates respecting his escape, are told by Appian
In the Florentine Index the work is attributed to (B. C. iv. 45), with reference to one Pomponius.
Venuleius Saturninus, an error which, as it has [POMPONIUS, No. 14.] Saturninus was rewarded
been observed, has manifestly originated in the for his desertion of Pompeius by the consulship,
title to the fifteenth excerpt of lib. 50. tit. 19. which he held in B.c. 19, with Q. Lucretius
Two rescripts of Antoninus Pius are addressed to Vespillo. Velleius Paterculus celebrates his praises
Claudius Saturninus (Dig. 20. tit. 3. s. 1. ~ 2, 50. for the manner in which he carried on the governtit. 7. s. 4). Saturninus was praetor under the ment during his consulship, and for his opposition
Divi Fratres (Dig. 17. tit. 1. s. 6. ~ 7). A rescript to the seditious schemes of Egnatius Rufus.
of Hadrian on the excusatio of a minor annis xxv. [RuFus, EGNATIUS, No. 2.] After his consulwho had been appointed (datus) tutor to an adfinis, ship he was appointed to the government of Syria,
is addressed to Claudius Saturninus, legatus Bel- in connection with which he is frequently mengicae; and there is no chronological impossibility tioned by Josephus. He was succeeded in the
in assuming him to be the jurist. government by Quintilius Varus (Dion Cass. liv.
Grotius maintains that the Q. Saturninus who 10; Frontin. de A quaed. 10; Vell. Pat. ii. 92;
wrote, at least, ten books Ad Edictum (Dig. 34. Joseph. Ant. xvi. 10. ~ 8, xvi. 11. ~ 3, xvii. 1.
tit. 2. s. 19. ~ 7), is a different person from the ~ 1, xvii. 3. ~ 2, xvii. 5. ~ 2, B. J. i. 27. ~ 2).
author of the treatise De Poenis Paganorunm. A Josephus (Ant. xvi. 11. ~ 3) speaks of three
S;lturninus is again mentioned in an excerpt from sons of Saturninus, who accompanied him as legati
Ulpian (Dig. 12. tit. 2. s. 13. ~ 5). But this to Syria, and who were present with their father
Quintus may be Venuleius Saturninus. (Zimmern, at the trial of Herod's sons at Berytus in B. c. 6.
Geschichte des R;m. Privatrec7hts, i. p. 354.) [G. L.] 3. C. SENTIUS C. F. C. N. SATURNINUS, the son
SATURNI'NUS, FAINNIUS, the paeda- of No. 2. was consul A. D. 4, in which year the
gogus, who corrupted the daughter of Pontius Lex. Aelia Sentia was passed. He was appointed
Aufidianus. (Val. Max. vi. 1. ~ 3.) by Augustus governor of Germany, and served
SATURNI'NUS, FU'RIUS, a rhetorician with distinction under Tiberius, in his campaign
mentioned in the Controversiae of the elder Seneca. against the Germans. He was, in consequence,
(Controv. 21.) rewarded by Augustus with the triumphal ornaSATURNI'NUS, JU'NIUS, a Roman his- ments in A. D. 6. (Vell. Pat. ii. 103, 105, 109;
torian of the Augustan age, quoted by Suetonius. Dion Cass. lv. 28.)
(Aug. 27.) 4. CN. SENTIUS SATURNINUS, consul suffectus
SATURNI'NUS, LU/SIUS, ruined ill the A. D. 4, was probably likewise a son of No. 2.
reign of Claudius through means of Suillius, as since the latter had, as we have already seen,
the enemies of the latter asserted. (Tac. Ann. xiii. three sons in Syria, who were old enough to serve
43.) as his legati. He was appointed in A.D. I. 9,
SATURNI'NUS, POMPEIUS, a contein- governor of Syria, and compelled Cn. Piso by
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