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Saturninus (Lucius Appuleius Saturninus) (săt'ərnī`nəs), d. 100 B.C., Roman statesman. He was quaestor in 104 B.C. and later tribune of the people. He was violently opposed to the senatorial party and allied himself with Marius Marius, Caius (mâr`ēəs), c.157 B.C.–86 B.C., Roman general. A plebeian, he became tribune (119 B.C.) and praetor (115 B. ..... Click the link for more information. to procure the banishment of Metellus Numidicus (see under Metellus Lucius Caecilius Metellus, d. c.221 B.C., consul (251 B.C.), fought in the First Punic War. He was pontifex maximus (from 243) and was said to have been blinded (241) in rescuing the Palladium from the burning temple of Vesta. ..... Click the link for more information. , family), the passage of a grain law, and the establishment of new colonies in Sicily, Achaia, and Macedonia. With the demagogue Glaucia he instigated the murder of Caius Memmius, Glaucia's rival for the consulship; for this the senate proscribed them. He and Glaucia fled from the Forum to the Capitol, where they surrendered to Marius after the water supply was cut off. While they were being held for security, the mob stoned them to death with roofing tiles. Saturninus connives and plots politically; kills Titus. [Br. Lit.: Titus Andronicus] See : Treachery |
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The infamous bloody banquet scene where Titus, Lavinia, Tamora, and Saturninus all meet their fate is appropriately filmed as a mixture of comic absurdity and disbelief. Lennix as the devious Aaron; and Alan Cumming as Saturninus, the decadent emperor. Why we care: We agree: Jodie Foster's Anna was no King and I, and though we're always eager to see ambisexual Alan Cumming on-screen, his decadent Saturninus in Titus wasn't much of a stretch after his leering emcee onstage in Broadway's recent revival of Cabaret (directed, we recall, by American Beauty's Sam Mendes). |
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