SATURNIA, Sti-r70"-Iti-a. z. Italy, from its king in the golden age, Saturn. 2. Juno, as the daughter of Saturn. 3. Or Aurinia, an ancient town of Etruria, near Caletra. SATURNINUS, L. APPULE1US, sii-tur-nr-nus, afi-Pa-lei'-us, a Roman demagogue and sup porter of Marius ; was tribune of the plebs 102 n.e., when his hired ruffians murdered Memmius, the competitor with the demagogue Glaucia, for the consulship. The Senate or dered the consul Marius to proceed against Saturninus and Glaucia as public enemies. Saturninus, Glaucia, Saufeius, &c., seized the Capitol, but the water-pipes having been cut, they had to surrender to Marius, who, to save their lives, put them in the Senate's usual place of meeting, the Curia Hostilia ; but the mob broke in and killed them with the tiles. SATURNUS, Sii-ill?"-nus, son of Coelus (Uranus) and Terra (GS), was identified with the Greek god Crands, who mutilated his father Ccelus. Saturn succeeded to his father's kingdom by consent of his brother Titan, on promising that he would never rear up any male children by his wife Rhea (Ops) ; but Rhea gave him large stones, wrapped up as infants, to swallow instead of his sons Jupiter, Pluto, and Neptune, and these stones, with the other children, were afterwards vomited up by a potion given him by Metis. Titan,
learning that sons were being reared io Saturn, warred with him, and made him fly to Latium, where he was received by King Janus, and settled on the Capitoline (anciently Saturnian) Mount, where he reigned as king. He sad denly disappeared from earth, and was reckoned a god. Saturn was usually repre sented as an old man, holding a pruning-knife, while his feet were girt with a woollen fillet ; his festivals were the &Unruh/2a (q.v.), and his temple was the Treasury.
SATYRI, Greek demigods, sons of Mercury and Iphthima (or the Naffides), were identified by the Romans with the Italian Fauni (q.v.).