Ahenobarbus
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Ahenobarbus was the name of a plebeian family of the Domitia gens in the late Republic and early Principate of ancient Rome.[1] The name means "red-beard" in Latin and, according to legend, Castor and Pollux announced to one of their ancestors the victory of the Romans over the Latins at the battle of Lake Regillus, and, to confirm the truth of what they said, that they stroked his black hair and beard, which immediately became red.[2][3][4][5]
The name may refer to:
- Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus (consul 192 BC).
- Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus (consul 162 BC).
- Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus (consul 122 BC).
- Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus (consul 96 BC), son of the same named consul of 122 BC.
- Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus (consul 94 BC).
- Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus (died 81 BC)
- Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus (consul 54 BC), son of Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus (consul 96 BC), supporter of Pompey and character in Lucan's Pharsalia
- Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus (praetor 50 BC).
- Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus (consul 32 BC).
- Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus (consul 16 BC), only child of the above Gnaeus Domitius and Aemilia Lepida.
- Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus (consul 32), father of the Emperor Nero.
- Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus (Nero), fifth Roman Emperor and son of the above.
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[edit] References
- ^ Smith, William (1867), “Ahenobarbus”, in Smith, William, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. 1, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, pp. 83-84
- ^ Suetonius, Nero 1
- ^ Plutarch, Aemil. 25, Coriol. 3
- ^ Dionysius of Halicarnassus, vi. 13
- ^ Tertullian, Apol. 22
[edit] Sources
- This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.
- This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William Smith (1870).
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