Digital Prosopography of the Roman Republic

DOMI1630 Cn. Domitius (20, Supb. 3.349) Cn. f. Cn. n. Ahenobarbus

Life Dates

  • 169?, birth (Rüpke 2005)
  • Before 103, death (Rüpke 2005)

Relationships

son of
? Cn. Domitius (19) Cn. f. L. n. Ahenobarbus (cos. suff. 162) (Zmeskal 2009)
father of
Domitia (90) (daughter of Cn. Domitius (20, Supb. 3.349) Cn. f. Cn. n. Ahenobarbus (cos. 122)) (RE)
? L. Domitius (26) Cn. f. Cn. n. Ahenobarbus (cos. 94) (Zmeskal 2009)
? Cn. Domitius (21) Cn. f. Cn. n. Ahenobarbus (cos. 96) (Zmeskal 2009)

Career

  • Pontifex? 140 to after 115 (Rüpke 2005) Expand
    • Successor: see below, on Scaurus: and above, Tribunes of the Plebs, on Domitius. Suet. Nero 2.1; cf. Ascon. 21 C; and note 7. (Broughton MRR I)
  • Legatus (Lieutenant) 129 Asia (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • Served under Aquillius in Asia, probably as a Legatus pro praetore (Holleaux, REA 21 [1919] 1-6, with title {Gr}; cf. IGRP 4.968). (Broughton MRR I)
  • Legatus (Lieutenant) 128 Asia (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • See 129, Legates. (Broughton MRR I)
  • Legatus (Lieutenant) 127 Asia (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • See 129, Legates. (Broughton MRR I)
  • Praetor before 124 (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • The latest date possible for his praetorship. (Broughton MRR I)
    • p. 739 (Brennan 2000)
  • Consul 122 (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • On Domitius' filiation, see Act. Tr. for 120. Suetonius dates his victories in his consulship, but Livy and Orosius are probably correct in referring them to his proconsulship. (Broughton MRR I)
    • Cic. Brut. 99-100; Fast. Ant., Degrassi 162f. ([Cn.] D[- - - -], C. Fan[- - - -]); Plin. NH 2.99; Obseq. 32; Chr. 354 (Enobarbo et Fanno); Fast. Hyd. (Ahenobarbo et Faenio), so also Chr. Pasc.; Cassiod.; and on Fannius, CIL 1 .2.658. See Degrassi 126, 472f. Domitius succeeded Sextius in Gaul, where he was victorious over the Salluvii, and then engaged in war against the Allobroges and the Arverni (Liv. Per. 61; Vell. 2.10.2, and 39.1; Strabo 4.2.3; Val. Max. 9.6.3; Suet. Nero 1.2; 2.1; Flor. 1.37.4-6; App. Celt. 12; Eutrop. 4.22; Oros. 5.13.2; Jerome Chr. ad ann. 127, p. 146 Helm; see 121 and 120, Promagistrates). Fannius, though elected over Opimius by the aid of C. Gracchus, turned against him, and opposed particularly the proposal to grant citizenship to Latins and Italians (Plut. CG 8.2-3; 11.2-3; 12.1-2; cf. Cic. Brut. 99; De Or. 3.183; FOR 1.246f.). (Broughton MRR I)
  • Proconsul 121 Gallia Transalpina (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • Proconsul (Act. Tr. for 120). Continued along with the Consul Fabius the wars against the Allobroges and the Arverni (see 122, Consuls, and 120, Promagistrates). (Broughton MRR I)
  • Triumphator 120 (Rich 2014) Expand
    • Triumph de Galleis Arverneis. MRR I.524, III.81-2, Itgenshorst no. 222, Rich no. 222. (Rich 2014)
  • Proconsul 120 Gallia Transalpina (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • Proconsul (Act. Tr.). Completed his campaign in Gaul and celebrated a triumph over the Arverni (Act. Tr., Degrassi 82f., 560; Flor. 1.37.5; Eutrop. 4.22; cf. Vell. 2.10.2; Liv. Per. 61; Suet. Nero 2; Grueber, CRRBM 1.151; 2.258f.). He built the Via Domitia and organized the province (see Cic. Font. 18). (Broughton MRR I)
  • Proconsul? 119 Gallia Transalpina (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • Additions and Corrections. A milestone of the Via Domitia, found in 1949 at Pont de Treilles in the department of Aude at about twenty miles from Narbo, and inscribed Cn. Domitius Cn. f. Ahenobarbus imperator XX, raises the probability that his proconsulate extended until the founding of Narbo in 118 and that his triumph was not celebrated until that or even the following year (P.-M. Duval, "A propos d'un miliaire de Cnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus Imperator," CRAI 1951, 161-168). It follows that the term of the proconsulate and the date of the triumph of Q. Fabius Maximus Allobrogicus should also be placed in thesse years. Both triumphs precede the triumph of Metellus Delmaticus in 117. (Broughton MRR II)
  • Proconsul? 118 Gallia Transalpina (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • Additions and Corrections. A milestone of the Via Domitia, found in 1949 at Pont de Treilles in the department of Aude at about twenty miles from Narbo, and inscribed Cn. Domitius Cn. f. Ahenobarbus imperator XX, raises the probability that his proconsulate extended until the founding of Narbo in 118 and that his triumph was not celebrated until that or even the following year (P.-M. Duval, "A propos d'un miliaire de Cnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus Imperator," CRAI 1951, 161-168). It follows that the term of the proconsulate and the date of the triumph of Q. Fabius Maximus Allobrogicus should also be placed in thesse years. Both triumphs precede the triumph of Metellus Delmaticus in 117. (Broughton MRR II)
  • Censor 115 (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • Lex. Agr. of 111, CIL 1 .2.585, lines 28, 85-89; Fast. Ant., Degrassi 162f. ([L.] Caecili. Q. f. n. Mete., Cn. D[omiti.- - - -]); Cic. Verr. 2.1.143; Val. Max. 2.9.9). See Degrassi 127, 474f. They removed 32 persons from the Senate, including Licinius Geta, Cos. 116, and Marius' friend Cassius Subaco (Cic. Cluent. 119, and 121; Liv. Per. 62,{532} and 63; Val. Max. 2.9.9; Plut. Mar. 5.3-4), and banished the ars ludicra from the city with the exceptions of the Latin tibicen and singer and the ludus talarius (Cassiod. Chr.). They chose M. Aemilius Scaurus 2 Princeps Senatus (Sall. Iug. 25.4; Plin. NH 8.223). (Broughton MRR I)
    • As Scaurus was Princeps Senatus in 112 (Sall. Iug. 25.4), he must have been appointed by the Censors of 115, although, as Mommsen pointed out (Str. 3.970), there had not been a certain example of a Princeps Senatus who was not a patrician Censor or ex-Censor (see however 125, Censors, on P. Cornelius Lentulus). It seems probable that no patrician ex-Censors remained alive in 115. The latest reference to one is that to Servilius Caepio in 125 (see 125, Censors), the date of whose death remains unknown (see Cic. Att. 12.20.2; and 105, Quaestors). Scaurus was repeatedly reappointed and his position is often mentioned (Cic. Rab. Perd. 21; Scaur. 1.46; De Or. 2.197; Val. Max. 4.4.11; 8.5.2; Ascon. 18, and 22 C; Plin. NH 36.116). (Broughton MRR I)

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