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'''Gaius Sentius Saturninus''' was a [[Roman Empire|Roman]] [[Roman senate|senator]], and [[Roman consul|consul ''ordinarius'']] for AD 4 as the colleague of [[Sextus Aelius Catus]].<ref>[[Alison E. Cooley]], ''The Cambridge Manual of Latin Epigraphy'' (Cambridge: University Press, 2012), p. 458</ref> He was the middle son of [[Gaius Sentius Saturninus]], consul in 19 BC. During his consulate the ''[[Lex Aelia Sentia]]'', concerning the manumission of slaves, was published.
Saturninus, with his brothers [[Gnaeus Sentius Saturninus (consul 4)|Gnaeus Sentius Saturninus]], suffect consul in AD 4, and Lucius Sentius Saturninus, accompanied their father when he assumed the governorship of [[Syria (Roman province)|Syria]] in the years 9 through 7 BC, serving as his ''[[legatus|legati]]'' or assistants.<ref>[[Ronald Syme]], ''Augustan Aristocracy'' (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983), p. 322 n. 74</ref>
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