What is "saturninus"

Saturninus may refer to:

• Lucius Appuleius Saturninus (died 100 BC), tribune
• Gaius Sentius Saturninus, consul 19 BC
• Marcus Aponius Saturninus, governor of Moesia, and partisan of first Vitellius, then Vespasian
• Lucius Antonius Saturninus (79), provincial governor and rebel against Domitian
• Julius Saturninus (279), provincial governor and rebel against Probus
• Saturninus (253-268), rebel against Gallienus
• Saturninus (consul 383), Roman consul in 383
• Venuleius Saturninus, jurist
• Several Christian saints known as Saint Saturninus
• The Emperor in William Shakespeare's play Titus Andronicus

Saturninus is mentioned in the Historia Augusta as a Roman usurper during the reign of emperor Gallienus (253-268). It is very probably a fictional construction by the author of the Historia Augusta.

Flavius Saturninus (floruit 377–400) was a politician and a military man of the Roman Empire.