Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus (praetor 50 BC)

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Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus was an ancient Roman who served as praetor in 80 BC, and commander of the province of Hispania Citerior, with the title of proconsul.[1] In 79 BC, he was summoned into Hispania Ulterior by Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius, who was in want of assistance against Quintus Sertorius, but he was defeated and killed by Hirtuleius, quaestor of Sertorius, near the Anas.[2][3][4][5][6] His relation to the distinguished Ahenobarbus family is unclear.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Smith, William (1867), “Ahenobarbus (15), Lucius Domitius”, in Smith, William, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. 1, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, pp. 86 
  2. ^ Plutarch, Sert. 12
  3. ^ Livy, Epit. 90
  4. ^ Eutropius vi. 1
  5. ^ Florus, iii. 22
  6. ^ Orosius, v. 23

This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William Smith (1870).