Aponius Saturninus

Family: Roman · Role: praetorian personage · First appears: Caligula 38

Life events

• Caligula caused Aponius Saturninus to buy thirteen gladiators unknowingly for nine million sesterces.(Caligula 38)
  • With: Caligula
  • “until thirteen gladiators were knocked down to him at the sum of nine millions of sesterces, he being in total ignorance of what was doing.”

Caligula 38

• with Caligula (Caligula causes Aponius Saturninus to be sold thirteen gladiators at auction through a deception.) “Caius called out to the auctioneer, not to overlook the praetorian personage who nodded to him so often; and accordingly the salesman went on, pretending to take the nods for tokens of assent, until thirteen gladiators were knocked down to him at the sum of nine millions of sesterces, he being in total ignorance of what was doing.”

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Extracted from the original text of The Lives of the Twelve Caesars. Made with Rho MD.