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he would have been assigned to assist the emperor, and as quaestor
Saturninus' duties would have included reading the emperor's speeches to the Senate. Another detail that can be inferred from his status as a Patrician is that if he acceded to consul
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official; he could only cite two other examples of its usage. However, in a note added to the end of his article just before publication, Eck accepted another restoration of the line, proposed by Joyce
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confirms he was a patrician. Although this office is not mentioned in the inscription, as a patrician
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for the man. After providing his name with filation, the inscription attests he started his senatorial career likely in his teens as one of the
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was an actual title. Having acknowledged the odd language, Eck then argues that the titles were, indeed, identical.
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Late 1st/early 2nd century AD Roman senator and consul
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286:Listy filologické / Folia philologica
380:Lucius Venuleius Montanus Apronianus
282:"Leges Annales under the Principate"
189:Quintus Volusius Flaccus Cornelianus
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145:sevir equitum Romanorum
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351:Publius Metilius Nepos
316:Fasti of Roman Britain
161:Lucius Nonius Asprenas
214:Classical Quarterly
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399:as suffect consuls
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112:anno suo
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