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Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus, tribune of the people 104 BC, 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be elected by the people in the comitia tributa (seventeen of the tribes voting) instead of by co-optation; the law was repealed by Sulla, revived by Julius Caesar and (perhaps) again repealed by Marcus Antonius, the triumvir ( Cicero, De Lege Agraria, ii. 7; Suetonius, Nero, 2). Ahenobarbus was elected pontifex maximus in 103 BC, 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 ( Aulus Gellius xv. 11).

Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus, son of the above, husband of Porcia Catones the sister of Cato the younger, friend of Cicero and enemy of Julius Caesar, and a strong supporter of the aristocratical party. At first strongly opposed to Pompey, he afterwards sided with him against Caesar. He was consul in 54 BC, and in 49 he was appointed by the senate to succeed Caesar as governor of Gaul. After the outbreak of the civil war he commanded the Pompeian troops at Corfinium, but was obliged to surrender. Although treated with great generosity by Caesar, he stirred up Massilia (today's MarseilleMarseilles redirects here. There is also Marseilles, Illinois. Marseille (English Marseilles Provencal Marsilha is the second largest city in France. Located in the former province of Provence and on the Mediterranean sea, it is France's largest commercia) to an unsuccessful resistance against him. After its surrender, he joined Pompey in GreeceGreece formally called the Hellenic Republic (in Greek: ) Hellenike Demokratia , is a country in the southeast of Europe on the southern tip of the Balkan peninsula. It is bounded on land by Bulgaria, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Albania and was slain in the flight after the battle of PharsalusThe Battle of Pharsalus occurred in Pharsalus—in Thessaly, northern Greece. Gaius Julius Caesar defeated Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus (Pompey) and the Senatorial forces at the battle of Pharsalus on August 9, 48 BC and solidified his control over the Mediterran, in which he commanded the right wing against Antony (Caesar, Bellum Civile, i., ii., iii.; Dio Cassius xxxix., xli.; Appian, B.C. ii. 82).

Gnaeus Domitius AhenobarbusGnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus a member of the noble Ahenobarbus family, accompanied his father at Corfinium and Pharsalus, and, having been pardoned by Julius Caesar, returned to Rome in 46. After Caesar's assassination he attached himself to Marcus Junius, son of the above.

Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus Lucius Domitius was the only child of the above and Aemilia Lepida. His mother was a paternal cousin to triumvir Marcus Aemiliius Lepidus . His paternal grandmother was Porcia CatonesPorcia Catones (d. 42 BC) was a Roman woman, daughter of Marcus Porcius Cato, the younger and his first wife Atilia. Porcia was married first to Marcus Calpurnius Bibulus (her father's political ally), then to Marcus Junius Brutus, her first cousin. She c.

He won an honorary triuph, by penetrating deeper into Germany, than anyone else before him. As a youngman he was a famous charioteer. Suetonius describes as 'arrogant, cruel, notorius and extravagent'.

Lucius held the office of aedile. As praetor and consul made knights marry women as if the ceremonies were pantomimes. He enjoyed presenting gladiatorial contests and wild animal hunts. In Augustus' will he was nominated to purchase his household possessions.

Lucius married Antonia MajorAntonia Major (Latin for "the older") (b. 39 BC) was a daughter of Mark Antony and Octavia, the sister of Augustus Caesar. Little is known of this elder daughter of Mark Antony and Octavia, shadowed as she is by her younger sister Antonia Minor, who mothe, Augustus' niece. They had Domitia, Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus and Domitia Lepida.

Lucius died in 25ad.

Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus, son of the above.

Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus ( Nero), fifth Roman Emperor and son of the above.

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