Venuleius Saturninus

Venuleius Saturninus was a Roman jurist active in the early 3rd century AD, a student of the great jurist Papinian and later an advisor to the emperor Alexander Severus. He is recorded as receiving imperial rescripts, formal legal rulings issued in response to petitions, from both Caracalla, dated to 213 AD, and Alexander Severus, situating his active career in the last years of the Severan dynasty. Nothing else is known with certainty of his background or public offices, though the administrative and procedural focus of his surviving writings suggests he may have held a position within the imperial government. His works, listed in the Florentine Index and preserved in roughly seventy-one fragments in Justinian's Digest, include ten books on actions, six on interdicts, four on the duties of the proconsul, a treatise on public prosecutions, and nineteen books on stipulations, and some manuscripts render his name as Venonius rather than Venuleius.