Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus (consul 94 BC)

For others of this family, see Ahenobarbus.

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.

References

  1. ^ Smith, William (1867), "Ahenobarbus (5), Lucius Domitius", in Smith, William, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, 1, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, pp. 85, http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0094.html 
  2. ^ Cicero, Verr. v. 3
  3. ^ Valerius Maximus, vi. 3. ยง 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