Saturninus And Umbisus

This entry appears to conflate two distinct names ('Saturninus and Umbisus') into a single record, and is attributed to two collections separated by four centuries (the letters of Pliny the Younger, c. 100 AD, and the Variae of Cassiodorus, compiled in the 6th century AD as official correspondence of the Ostrogothic court at Ravenna). No single, securely identifiable historical figure corresponds to this composite name. Neither component is independently well attested: such names recur as recipients or parties named in administrative and private letters of late antiquity, but on the evidence here they cannot be tied to a specific career, dates, or office. Treated honestly, this is best understood as a minor correspondent or pair of parties named in the letters rather than a known historical personage; the assigned coordinates point to the Ravenna region, the seat of the Cassiodoran chancery, which is a reasonable milieu for the Variae material but should not be taken as a documented place of activity.