Political Career
In 61, he carried out duties as a censor in Gaul, together with Titus Sextius Africanus and Marcus Trebellius Maximus. Saturninus and Africanus were rivals, and both hated Trebellius Maximus, who took advantage of their rivalry to get the better of them. Tacitus describes him as a man of 'aristocratic status'. Saturninus was probably also the father or grandfather to the younger Quintus Volusius Saturninus who was a senator and consul in 92 during the reign of Domitian.
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