DOMI1763 Cn. Domitius (21) Cn. f. Cn. n. Ahenobarbus

Status

  • Nobilis Expand

    Cic. Rab. Perd. 7.21, Cic. Leg. Agr. 2.7.18-19, Plin, HN 17.1.3

Life Dates

  • 139?, birth (Sumner Orators) Expand

    Sumner R108, Evans & Kleijwegt p. 195.

  • 89?, death (Broughton MRR II)

Relationships

son of
? Cn. Domitius (20, Supb. 3.349) Cn. f. Cn. n. Ahenobarbus (cos. 122) (Zmeskal 2009)
brother of
? Domitia (90) (daughter of Cn. Domitius (20, Supb. 3.349) Cn. f. Cn. n. Ahenobarbus (cos. 122)) (DPRR Team)
L. Domitius (26) Cn. f. Cn. n. Ahenobarbus (cos. 94) (Zmeskal 2009) Expand

Cic. Rab. perd. 21, Gell. XV 13.6, Gell. XVII 2.7

father of
Cn. Domitius (22) Ahenobarbus (promag. 81) (Zmeskal 2009) Expand

Suet. Nero 2.2

L. Domitius (27) Cn. f. Cn. n. Fab. Ahenobarbus (cos. 54) (Zmeskal 2009) Expand

Suet. Nero 2.2

Career

  • Moneyer 118 (RRC) Expand
    • ref. 282 (RRC)
  • Triumvir Coloniis Deducendis 118 (Broughton MRR III) Expand
    • In MRR 2.439, and Index, 560, refer also to Crawford, RRC 1.300-301, no. 285, 116 or 115 B.C. Crawford notes the difficulty, due to difference in ages, in placing the consul of 96 with M. Silan(us) and Q. Curt(ius) in these years. Special commission to found the colony of Narbo. See MRR 2.528. He was probably a IIvir with the young orator L. Licinius Crassus in 118 (Vell. 1.15; 2.7). On the disputes regarding the date, see especially Sumner, Orators 94- 96, and the works cited there. These deal with both the plan and proposal to found the colony (cf. the milestone of Treilles, ILLRP 460a) by or before 118, and Crassus' dissuasio of a rogatio to annul the foundation (Cic. Cluent. 140; De Or. 2.223; Brut. 160). Tribune of the plebs. In 104, according to Asconius (80C; emendation of the impossible dating, before the trial of Cornelius in 65, ante II et XLII annos C. Mario II C. Fimbria coss. to II de XLII still confuses 104 and 103), but according to Velleius (2.15.3) he carried his law to establish election of priests by a popular assembly of seventeen tribes in Marius' third consulship (103). Against Niccolini (FTP 191), who favors 104 as the date of his tribunate, Sumner proposes a probable division of Domitius' activities between 104 and 103, with Domitius in office from December 10, 104, and the passage of his law, the prosecution of Scaurus, his own election as pontifex and also separately as pontifex maximus, all in 103 (Orators 97-100). This order assumes an otherwise unattested priestly vacancy in 103. It also assumes that his quarrels were with the colleges of both pontiffs and augurs, and not with only one which has then been confused in our sources. See above, on M. Aemilius Scaurus (140), Cos. 115. Censor, 92. See MRR 2.17. As Gaius is not a Domitian praenomen, the C. Domitius (Diod. 37.13) who peacefully turned back Poppaedius the Marsic leader and his following is probably this Gnaeus. See Sherwin-White, Roman Citizenship 140, note 3.[82x] (Broughton MRR III)
  • Triumvir Monetalis? 116 (RRC) Expand
    • In MRR 2.439, and Index, 560, refer also to Crawford, RRC 1.300-301, no. 285, 116 or 115 B.C. Crawford notes the difficulty, due to difference in ages, in placing the consul of 96 with M. Silan(us) and Q. Curt(ius) in these years. Special commission to found the colony of Narbo. See MRR 2.528. He was probably a IIvir with the young orator L. Licinius Crassus in 118 (Vell. 1.15; 2.7). On the disputes regarding the date, see especially Sumner, Orators 94- 96, and the works cited there. These deal with both the plan and proposal to found the colony (cf. the milestone of Treilles, ILLRP 460a) by or before 118, and Crassus' dissuasio of a rogatio to annul the foundation (Cic. Cluent. 140; De Or. 2.223; Brut. 160). Tribune of the plebs. In 104, according to Asconius (80C; emendation of the impossible dating, before the trial of Cornelius in 65, ante II et XLII annos C. Mario II C. Fimbria coss. to II de XLII still confuses 104 and 103), but according to Velleius (2.15.3) he carried his law to establish election of priests by a popular assembly of seventeen tribes in Marius' third consulship (103). Against Niccolini (FTP 191), who favors 104 as the date of his tribunate, Sumner proposes a probable division of Domitius' activities between 104 and 103, with Domitius in office from December 10, 104, and the passage of his law, the prosecution of Scaurus, his own election as pontifex and also separately as pontifex maximus, all in 103 (Orators 97-100). This order assumes an otherwise unattested priestly vacancy in 103. It also assumes that his quarrels were with the colleges of both pontiffs and augurs, and not with only one which has then been confused in our sources. See above, on M. Aemilius Scaurus (140), Cos. 115. Censor, 92. See MRR 2.17. As Gaius is not a Domitian praenomen, the C. Domitius (Diod. 37.13) who peacefully turned back Poppaedius the Marsic leader and his following is probably this Gnaeus. See Sherwin-White, Roman Citizenship 140, note 3.[82x] (Broughton MRR III)
    • ref. 285 (RRC)
  • Triumvir Monetalis? 115 (RRC) Expand
    • In MRR 2.439, and Index, 560, refer also to Crawford, RRC 1.300-301, no. 285, 116 or 115 B.C. Crawford notes the difficulty, due to difference in ages, in placing the consul of 96 with M. Silan(us) and Q. Curt(ius) in these years. Special commission to found the colony of Narbo. See MRR 2.528. He was probably a IIvir with the young orator L. Licinius Crassus in 118 (Vell. 1.15; 2.7). On the disputes regarding the date, see especially Sumner, Orators 94- 96, and the works cited there. These deal with both the plan and proposal to found the colony (cf. the milestone of Treilles, ILLRP 460a) by or before 118, and Crassus' dissuasio of a rogatio to annul the foundation (Cic. Cluent. 140; De Or. 2.223; Brut. 160). Tribune of the plebs. In 104, according to Asconius (80C; emendation of the impossible dating, before the trial of Cornelius in 65, ante II et XLII annos C. Mario II C. Fimbria coss. to II de XLII still confuses 104 and 103), but according to Velleius (2.15.3) he carried his law to establish election of priests by a popular assembly of seventeen tribes in Marius' third consulship (103). Against Niccolini (FTP 191), who favors 104 as the date of his tribunate, Sumner proposes a probable division of Domitius' activities between 104 and 103, with Domitius in office from December 10, 104, and the passage of his law, the prosecution of Scaurus, his own election as pontifex and also separately as pontifex maximus, all in 103 (Orators 97-100). This order assumes an otherwise unattested priestly vacancy in 103. It also assumes that his quarrels were with the colleges of both pontiffs and augurs, and not with only one which has then been confused in our sources. See above, on M. Aemilius Scaurus (140), Cos. 115. Censor, 92. See MRR 2.17. As Gaius is not a Domitian praenomen, the C. Domitius (Diod. 37.13) who peacefully turned back Poppaedius the Marsic leader and his following is probably this Gnaeus. See Sherwin-White, Roman Citizenship 140, note 3.[82x] (Broughton MRR III)
    • ref. 285 (RRC)
  • Tribunus Plebis 104 (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • As Domitius' law was already in force in 103 (see 103, Pontifices), Asconius' date for his tribunate, 104, is preferable to that given by Velleius. See Niccolini, FTP 191. (Broughton MRR I)
    • Accused Silanus (Cos. 109) of beginning the war with the Cimbri illegally but failed to convict him (Cic. Corn. 2, fr. 7, ed. Müller, and Ascon. 80-81 C; Div. in Caec. 67, for injuries to a family friend; Verr. 2.2.118). Angry when not coopted into the college of pontiffs to succeed his father, he accused Aemilius Scaurus (see note 7) of improper celebration of sacred rites, but failed to convict him also (Cic. Scaur. fr. c, and Ascon. 21 C; Deiot. 31; Val. Max. 6.5.5; Suet. Nero 2.1; Dio 27, fr. 92; cf. Plut. Inim. util. 9, where the roles are reversed). He then carried a law to make the appointment of new members of the great priestly colleges subject to the popular vote of seventeen tribes (Cic. Leg. agr. 2.16, and 18; Corn. 2, in Ascon. 79-80 C; Ad Brut. 1.5.3; Vell. 2.12.3, in 103; Suet. Nero 2.1; Dio 37.37; cf. Auct. Ad Herenn. 1.20).{560} (Broughton MRR I)
    • In MRR 2.439, and Index, 560, refer also to Crawford, RRC 1.300-301, no. 285, 116 or 115 B.C. Crawford notes the difficulty, due to difference in ages, in placing the consul of 96 with M. Silan(us) and Q. Curt(ius) in these years. Special commission to found the colony of Narbo. See MRR 2.528. He was probably a IIvir with the young orator L. Licinius Crassus in 118 (Vell. 1.15; 2.7). On the disputes regarding the date, see especially Sumner, Orators 94- 96, and the works cited there. These deal with both the plan and proposal to found the colony (cf. the milestone of Treilles, ILLRP 460a) by or before 118, and Crassus' dissuasio of a rogatio to annul the foundation (Cic. Cluent. 140; De Or. 2.223; Brut. 160). Tribune of the plebs. In 104, according to Asconius (80C; emendation of the impossible dating, before the trial of Cornelius in 65, ante II et XLII annos C. Mario II C. Fimbria coss. to II de XLII still confuses 104 and 103), but according to Velleius (2.15.3) he carried his law to establish election of priests by a popular assembly of seventeen tribes in Marius' third consulship (103). Against Niccolini (FTP 191), who favors 104 as the date of his tribunate, Sumner proposes a probable division of Domitius' activities between 104 and 103, with Domitius in office from December 10, 104, and the passage of his law, the prosecution of Scaurus, his own election as pontifex and also separately as pontifex maximus, all in 103 (Orators 97-100). This order assumes an otherwise unattested priestly vacancy in 103. It also assumes that his quarrels were with the colleges of both pontiffs and augurs, and not with only one which has then been confused in our sources. See above, on M. Aemilius Scaurus (140), Cos. 115. Censor, 92. See MRR 2.17. As Gaius is not a Domitian praenomen, the C. Domitius (Diod. 37.13) who peacefully turned back Poppaedius the Marsic leader and his following is probably this Gnaeus. See Sherwin-White, Roman Citizenship 140, note 3.[82x] (Broughton MRR III)
    • p. 257-63 (Thommen 1989)
  • Pontifex 104 to 103 (Rüpke 2005) Expand
    • Cn. Domitius Ahenobarbus succeeded L. Caecilius Metellus Delmaticus as pontifex and pontifex maximus. Probably elected to the pontificate under his own law (see 104, Tribunes of the Plebs), and certainly elected Pontifex Maximus (Liv. Per. 67; cf. Cic. Deiot. 31; Val. Max. 6.5.5; and see L. R. Taylor, CPh 37 [1942] 421-424). (Broughton MRR I)
    • In MRR 2.439, and Index, 560, refer also to Crawford, RRC 1.300-301, no. 285, 116 or 115 B.C. Crawford notes the difficulty, due to difference in ages, in placing the consul of 96 with M. Silan(us) and Q. Curt(ius) in these years. Special commission to found the colony of Narbo. See MRR 2.528. He was probably a IIvir with the young orator L. Licinius Crassus in 118 (Vell. 1.15; 2.7). On the disputes regarding the date, see especially Sumner, Orators 94- 96, and the works cited there. These deal with both the plan and proposal to found the colony (cf. the milestone of Treilles, ILLRP 460a) by or before 118, and Crassus' dissuasio of a rogatio to annul the foundation (Cic. Cluent. 140; De Or. 2.223; Brut. 160). Tribune of the plebs. In 104, according to Asconius (80C; emendation of the impossible dating, before the trial of Cornelius in 65, ante II et XLII annos C. Mario II C. Fimbria coss. to II de XLII still confuses 104 and 103), but according to Velleius (2.15.3) he carried his law to establish election of priests by a popular assembly of seventeen tribes in Marius' third consulship (103). Against Niccolini (FTP 191), who favors 104 as the date of his tribunate, Sumner proposes a probable division of Domitius' activities between 104 and 103, with Domitius in office from December 10, 104, and the passage of his law, the prosecution of Scaurus, his own election as pontifex and also separately as pontifex maximus, all in 103 (Orators 97-100). This order assumes an otherwise unattested priestly vacancy in 103. It also assumes that his quarrels were with the colleges of both pontiffs and augurs, and not with only one which has then been confused in our sources. See above, on M. Aemilius Scaurus (140), Cos. 115. Censor, 92. See MRR 2.17. As Gaius is not a Domitian praenomen, the C. Domitius (Diod. 37.13) who peacefully turned back Poppaedius the Marsic leader and his following is probably this Gnaeus. See Sherwin-White, Roman Citizenship 140, note 3.[82x] (Broughton MRR III)
  • Pontifex Maximus 103 to 92 (Rüpke 2005) Expand
    • Cn. Domitius Ahenobarbus succeeded L. Caecilius Metellus Delmaticus as pontifex and pontifex maximus. Probably elected to the pontificate under his own law (see 104, Tribunes of the Plebs), and certainly elected Pontifex Maximus (Liv. Per. 67; cf. Cic. Deiot. 31; Val. Max. 6.5.5; and see L. R. Taylor, CPh 37 [1942] 421-424). (Broughton MRR I)
    • Q. Mucius Scaevola succeeded Cn. Domitius Ahenobarbus as pontifex maximus. Cic. Leg. 2.47 and 52-53; ND 3.80; Olf. 3.70; Varro LL 5.83; Diod. 38.17; Vell. 2.26.2; Ascon. 67C; App. BC 1.88; Gell. 5.19.6; Pompon. Dig. 1.2.2.41; Augustin. CD 4.27; 3.28-29; Pontifex, Cic. Top. 29; Lael. 1; Ascon. 14C; Flor. 2.9.21. (Broughton MRR II)
  • Praetor before 98 (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • p. 743 (Brennan 2000)
  • Consul 96 (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • CIL 12.2.889; Ann. Epig. 1945, no. 96- 1946, no. 161, if genuine; Fast. Cap., Degrassi 54f., 128, 478 f.; Ascon. In Scaur. 21 C; Obseq.49; Chr. 354; Fast. Hyd.; Chr. Pasc.; Cassiod.; and on Domitius, Cic. Deiot. 31. (Broughton MRR II)
  • Censor 92 (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • Fast. Ant., Degrassi 164f., and Fast. Cap., ibid. 54f., 129, 480f.; cf. Grueber, CRRBM 1.184-187; and on Domitius, Val. Max. 6.5.5. The Censors issued an edict against the Latin rhetors (Suet. Rhet. 1.1, in Gell. 15.11.2; and cf. Suet. Rhet. 2.1, from Cic. Ad Titinnium; Cic. De Or. 3.93-95; Quintil. Inst. Or. 2.4.42; Tac. Dial. 35). They quarreled with each other, Domitius attacking his colleague's love of luxury (Cic. De Or. 2.45, 227, 230, 242; Brut. 162, 164-165; Val. Max. 9.1.4; Plin. NH 17.1-6; 36.7 and 114; Suet. Nero 2.2; Plut. Inim. Util. 5; Praec. Rei Pub. Ger. 14.24; Sollert. Anim. 23.7; Aelian. Hist. Anim. 8.4; Macrob. Sat. 3.15.3-5), until they abdicated (Fast. Ant.). M. Aemilius Scaurus remained Princeps Senatus (Ascon. 18 and 22C). (Broughton MRR II)
    • In MRR 2.439, and Index, 560, refer also to Crawford, RRC 1.300-301, no. 285, 116 or 115 B.C. Crawford notes the difficulty, due to difference in ages, in placing the consul of 96 with M. Silan(us) and Q. Curt(ius) in these years. Special commission to found the colony of Narbo. See MRR 2.528. He was probably a IIvir with the young orator L. Licinius Crassus in 118 (Vell. 1.15; 2.7). On the disputes regarding the date, see especially Sumner, Orators 94- 96, and the works cited there. These deal with both the plan and proposal to found the colony (cf. the milestone of Treilles, ILLRP 460a) by or before 118, and Crassus' dissuasio of a rogatio to annul the foundation (Cic. Cluent. 140; De Or. 2.223; Brut. 160). Tribune of the plebs. In 104, according to Asconius (80C; emendation of the impossible dating, before the trial of Cornelius in 65, ante II et XLII annos C. Mario II C. Fimbria coss. to II de XLII still confuses 104 and 103), but according to Velleius (2.15.3) he carried his law to establish election of priests by a popular assembly of seventeen tribes in Marius' third consulship (103). Against Niccolini (FTP 191), who favors 104 as the date of his tribunate, Sumner proposes a probable division of Domitius' activities between 104 and 103, with Domitius in office from December 10, 104, and the passage of his law, the prosecution of Scaurus, his own election as pontifex and also separately as pontifex maximus, all in 103 (Orators 97-100). This order assumes an otherwise unattested priestly vacancy in 103. It also assumes that his quarrels were with the colleges of both pontiffs and augurs, and not with only one which has then been confused in our sources. See above, on M. Aemilius Scaurus (140), Cos. 115. Censor, 92. See MRR 2.17. As Gaius is not a Domitian praenomen, the C. Domitius (Diod. 37.13) who peacefully turned back Poppaedius the Marsic leader and his following is probably this Gnaeus. See Sherwin-White, Roman Citizenship 140, note 3.[82x] (Broughton MRR III)
  • Pontifex Maximus? 91 to 89 (Rüpke 2005)