Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus (consul 94 BC)
Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus was a politician in ancient Rome during the late 2nd and early 1st century BC.
He served as praetor in Sicily, probably in 96 BC, shortly after the Second Servile War, when slaves had been forbidden to carry arms.
He ordered a slave to be crucified for killing a wild boar with a hunting spear.
He was consul in 94 BC.
In the civil war between Gaius Marius and Sulla, he took the side of the latter, and was murdered at Rome by the praetor Damasippus on the orders of Gaius Marius the Younger.
He was the son of Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus, the consul in 122 BC, and brother of Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus, the consul in 96.
Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus (consul 96 BC)
Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus( died 88 BC) was tribune of the people in 104 BC.
He was the son of Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus, and brother of Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus.
The college of pontiffs elected him Pontifex Maximus in 103 B.C.( succeeding Lucius Caecilius Metellus Dalmaticus).
He brought forward a law(" lex Domitia de Sacerdotiis") by which the priests of the superior colleges were to be elected by the people in the" comitia tributa"( seventeen of the tribes voting) instead of by co-optation.
The law was subsequently repealed by Sulla.
Both during his tribunate and afterwards, he prosecuted several of his private enemies, such as Marcus Aemilius Scaurus( whom he blamed for not having been elected to the pontificate in the first place) and Marcus Junius Silanus.
He was elected consul in 96 BC and censor in 92 BC with Lucius Licinius Crassus the orator, with whom he was frequently at variance.
They took joint action, however, in suppressing the recently established Latin rhetorical schools, which they regarded as injurious to public morality; in the words of Cicero, these were seen as' schools of impudence'.
Their censorship was long celebrated for their disputes.
Domitius was of a violent temper, and was moreover in favor of the ancient simplicity of living, while Crassus loved luxury and encouraged art.
Among the many sayings recorded of both, we are told that Crassus observed," that it was no wonder that a man had a beard of brass, who had a mouth of iron and a heart of lead."
Cicero wrote that Domitius was not to be reckoned among the orators, but that he spoke well enough and had sufficient talent to maintain his high rank.
Ahenobarbus apparently died in 88 BC, during the consulship of Lucius Cornelius Sulla, and was succeeded as pontifex by Quintus Mucius Scaevola.
Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus (consul 54 BC)
Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus, consul in 54 BC, was an enemy of Julius Caesar and a strong supporter of the aristocratic party in the late Roman Republic.
He is first mentioned in 70 BC by Cicero as a witness against Verres.
In 61 he was curule aedile, when he exhibited a hundred Numidian lions, and continued the games so long that the people were obliged to leave the circus before the exhibition was over, in order to take food, which was the first time they had done so.
This pause in the games was called" diludium".
He married Porcia, the sister of Cato the Younger, and in his aedileship supported the latter in his proposals against bribery at elections, which were directed against Pompey, who was purchasing votes for Afranius.
The political opinions of Ahenobarbus coincided with those of Cato; throughout his life he was one of the strongest supporters of the aristocratic party.
He took an active part opposing the measures of Julius Caesar and Pompey, and in 59 was accused, at the instigation of Caesar, of being an accomplice to the pretended conspiracy against Pompey's life.
Ahenobarbus was praetor in 58.
He was candidate for the consulship of 55, and threatened that in his consulship he would carry out the measures he had proposed in his praetorship, and deprive Caesar of his province.
He was defeated, however, by Pompey and Crassus, who also ran for the consulship, and was driven from the Campus Martius on the day of election by force of arms.
He became a candidate again in the following year, and Caesar and Pompey, whose power was firmly established, did not oppose him.
He was accordingly elected consul for 54 with Appius Claudius Pulcher, a relation of Pompey, so he was not able to effect anything against Caesar and Pompey.
Both men were involved in an election scandal that year.
He did not go to a province at the expiration of his consulship; and as the friendship between Caesar and Pompey cooled, he became closely allied with the latter.
Ahenobarbus was the elected magistrate presiding over the trial against Titus Annius Milo in 52 for the murder of Publius Clodius, as related by Asconius' summary of Cicero's" Pro Milone".
For the next two or three years during Cicero's absence in Cilicia, information about Ahenobarbus is principally derived from the letters of his enemy Coelius to Cicero.
In 50 he was a candidate for the place in the college of augurs left vacant by the death of Quintus Hortensius, but was defeated by Mark Antony through the influence of Caesar.
The senate appointed him to succeed Caesar as governor of the province of further Gaul, and on the march of Caesar into Italy in 49, he was the only one of the aristocratic party who showed any energy or courage.
He threw himself into Corfinium with about thirty cohorts, expecting to be supported by Pompey; but as the latter did nothing to assist him, his own troops compelled him to surrender to Caesar.
Despairing of life, he ordered his doctor to give to him poison, but the latter gave him only a sleeping draught.
His soldiers were incorporated into Caesar's army, but Ahenobarbus was dismissed by Caesar uninjured −an act of clemency which he did not expect, and which he would certainly not have shown if he had been victorious.
Ahenobarbus' feelings against Caesar remained unaltered, but he was too deeply offended by the conduct of Pompey to join him immediately.
He retired for a short time to Cosa in Etruria, and afterwards sailed to Massilia, which he defended against Caesar.
He prosecuted the war vigorously against Caesar, but the town was eventually taken, and Ahenobarbus escaped in the only vessel that was able to get away from the town.
Ahenobarbus then proceeded east and joined Pompey in Thessaly, and proposed that, after the war, all senators who had remained neutral should be brought to trial.
Cicero, whom he branded as a coward, was not a little afraid of him.
Ahenobarbus was killed just after the Battle of Pharsalus in 48, in which he commanded the left wing against Publius Sulla.
He was struck down while trying to escape after the city had fallen.
According to Cicero's assertion in the second" Philippic", Mark Antony struck the blow that killed him.
Ahenobarbus was a man of great energy of character; he remained firm to his political principles, but was unscrupulous in the means he employed to maintain them.
The poet Lucan makes Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus a significant character in book 7 of his" Pharsalia"( he is called" Domitius").
Domitius is significant in the poem because he is the only known senator who died supporting Pompey at Pharsalia, and thus is a symbol of the dying republic.
Additionally, Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus is Nero's great- great- grandfather and shares Nero's birth name.
He was the son of Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus( consul 96 BC), and the father of Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus( consul 32 BC).
Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus (consul 32)
Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus( 11 December 17 BC – January 41 AD) was a close relative of the five Roman Emperors of the Julio- Claudian dynasty.
Domitius was the only son of Antonia Major( niece of the emperor Augustus and daughter of Augustus' sister Octavia Minor who was married to triumvir Mark Antony) and Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus( consul 16 BC).
His only siblings were Domitia Lepida the Elder and Domitia Lepida the Younger, mother of the Empress Valeria Messalina( third wife of the Emperor Claudius).
He was a great- nephew of the Emperor Augustus, brother- in- law and first cousin once removed of the Emperor Caligula; maternal cousin of the Emperor Claudius and the biological father to the Emperor Nero.
Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus (died 81 BC)
Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus, a politician of ancient Rome in the 1st century BC, was the son of Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus, and brother of Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus.
He married Cornelia, daughter of Lucius Cornelius Cinna, who was consul in 87 BC.
In the civil war between Marius and Sulla, Ahenobarbus took the side of the former.
When Sulla obtained the supreme power in 82 BC, Ahenobarbus was proscribed, and fled to Africa, where he was joined by many who were in the same condition as himself.
With the assistance of the Numidian king, Hiarbas, he collected an army, but was defeated in the battle of Utica by Pompey, whom Sulla had sent against him, and was afterwards killed in the storming of his camp, in 81 BC.
According to some accounts, he was executed after the battle on the orders of Pompey( who was probably acting on Sulla's orders himself).
Domitia Lepida the Elder
Domitia(" PIR ²" D 171), more commonly referred to as Domitia the Elder -- in fact no ancient source ever calls her Lepida-( ca. 8 BC- June 59) was the oldest child of Antonia Major and Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus( consul 16 BC), and the oldest granddaughter to Triumvir Mark Antony by Octavia Minor, a great- niece of the Roman Emperor Augustus, second cousin and sister- in- law to the Emperor Caligula, first cousin to the Emperor Claudius, maternal aunt to the Empress Valeria Messalina, and paternal aunt to Emperor Nero.
She had two younger siblings: Domitia Lepida and Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus( cos. AD 32).
The date of her birth is not recorded and can be only estimated as no later than 7 BC, but possibly as much as 10 years earlier, if one would allow a long delay between her birth and those of her two siblings.
She married the consul Decimus Haterius Agrippa, who died in 32 as a victim of Tiberius' reign of terror.
Domitia bore Agrippa a son, Quintus Haterius Antoninus( cos. AD 53) in approximately 20.
In 33 Domitia married the witty, wealthy, and influential Gaius Sallustius Crispus Passienus.
Crispus was the adopted grandson and biological great- great nephew of the historian Sallust.
After January 41, Crispus divorced Domitia, so he could marry Domitia's former sister- in- law Agrippina the Younger, who had recently returned from exile.
Thereby, Crispus became the stepfather of Agrippina's son Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus( Nero), who was Domitia's nephew.
Crispus soon died mysteriously, leaving a fortune to Agrippina and her son.
During the reigns of Caligula, Claudius and Nero, Domitia was an influential rival to Agrippina.
In June 59, she died while confined to a bed with severe constipation.
Nero was visiting her at the time, and she commented that when he shaved his beard( a Roman symbolic act, usually performed during a ceremony at the age of twenty- one), she would gladly die peacefully.
Nero turned to those with him and joked," I'll take it off at once."
According to a rumor, he then ordered the doctors to administer a fatal dose of laxative to his aunt and seized her property while she was dying.
Modern scholars such as Miriam T. Griffin distrust the claim that Nero poisoned her.
Decimus Haterius Agrippa
Decimus Haterius Agrippa was the son of the orator and senator Quintus Haterius.
He was plebeian tribune in AD 15 and vetoed proposals; was praetor in 17, consul in 22.
Agrippa at one time strongly urged the emperor Tiberius to nominate a limited number of political candidates from each family.
He died in 32, a victim of Tiberius' reign of terror.
He is not to be confused with Postumus Agrippa, his half- uncle.
Tacitus describes him as a" somnolent creature".
He married Domitia, daughter of Antonia Major and Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus.
Their only child was Quintus Haterius Antoninus( cos. AD 53).
Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus (consul 16 BC)
Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus (c. 49 BC – 25 AD) was the son and only child of consul Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus and Aemilia Lepida.
His mother was a paternal relative of the triumvir Marcus Aemilius Lepidus.
His paternal grandmother was Porcia Catonis (sister to Cato the Younger).
As a young man Lucius was a renowned and devoted charioteer, perhaps to the point of obsession.
He was betrothed in 36 BC, at the meeting of Octavian and Mark Antony at Tarentum, to Antonia Major, the daughter of the latter by Octavia.
He was aedile in 22 BC and consul in 16 BC.
After his consulship, he served as governor of Africa from 13/12 BC.
He was later probably the successor of Tiberius in Germania, where he commanded the Roman army and crossed the Elbe, during which he set up an altar to Augustus, and penetrated further into the country than any of his predecessors had done.
He also built a walkway, called the "pontes longi", over the marshes between the Rhine River and the Ems River.
In 15 AD a battle fought on this walkway.
For these achievements he received the insignia of a triumph.
He died in 25.
Suetonius described him as "arrogant, cruel, notorious and extravagant," and records numerous instances of his disrespect, to censor Lucius Munatius Plancus, to a proconsul of Africa, to a legate of Illyricum.
In his praetorship and consulship he brought Roman equites and married women on the stage to perform in pantomimes, which rankled because in Rome acting was considered to be low-class.
He exhibited shows of wild beasts in every quarter of the city, and his gladiatorial combats were conducted with such excessive bloodshed that Augustus was obliged to put some restraint upon them.
He had three children with Antonia Major:
Domitia Lepida the Elder, born c. 8 BC;
Domitia Lepida, born c. 3 BC and mother of the Empress Valeria Messalina; and Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus (cos. AD 32), born c. 1 BC, who was the biological father of the Emperor Nero.
Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus (consul 162 BC)
Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus, son of the Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus who had been consul in 192 BC, was chosen pontifex in 172 BC, when still a young man, and in 169 BC was sent with two others as commissioners into Macedonia.
In 167 BC he was one of the ten commissioners for arranging the affairs of Macedonia in conjunction with Aemilius Paulus; and when the consuls of 162 BC abdicated on account of some fault in the auspices in their election, he and Cornelius Lentulus were chosen consuls in their stead.
Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus (consul 32 BC)
Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus (died 31 BC) was a general and politician of ancient Rome in the 1st century BC.

Question: What nationality is Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus (Consul 16 Bc)'s father?
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