Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus (consul 94 BC)

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Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus was a politician of ancient Rome of the late 2nd and early 1st century BC.[1] 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.[2][3] 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, on the orders of the younger Marius, by the praetor Damasippus.[4][5][6]

He was the son of Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus, and brother of Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Smith, William (1867), “Ahenobarbus (5), Lucius Domitius”, in Smith, William, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. 1, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, pp. 85 
  2. ^ Cicero, Verr. v. 3
  3. ^ Valerius Maximus, vi. 3. § 5
  4. ^ Appian B. C. i. 88
  5. ^ Marcus Velleius Paterculus, ii. 26
  6. ^ Orosius, v. 20
Preceded by
Lucius Licinius Crassus
and
Quintus Mucius Scaevola Pontifex		 Consul of the Roman Republic
with Gaius Coelius Caldus
94 BC		 Succeeded by
Gaius Valerius Flaccus
and
Marcus Herennius