Digital Prosopography of the Roman Republic

DOMI2264 L. Domitius (27) Cn. f. Cn. n. Fab. Ahenobarbus

Status

  • Nobilis Expand

    Cic. Phil. 2.29.71, Lucan. BC 2.510

  • Eques R Expand

    Nicolet Ref 133. Cic. 1 Verr. 139. princeps iuventutis,

Life Dates

  • 98?, birth (Sumner Orators) Expand

    Sumner R209.

  • 48, death - violent (Broughton MRR II) Expand

    KIA, B. of Pharsalus.

Relationships

son of
Cn. Domitius (21) Cn. f. Cn. n. Ahenobarbus (cos. 96) (Zmeskal 2009) Expand

Suet. Nero 2.2

brother of
? Cn. Domitius (22) Ahenobarbus (promag. 81) (DPRR Team)
married to
Porcia (27) (daughter of? M. Porcius (12) Pap.? Cato (tr. pl. 100 or 99)) (Zmeskal 2009) Expand

Plut. Cato min. 41.2, Plut. Crass. 15.2(4)

father of
Sex. Atilius (71) Serranus (son of L. Domitius (27) Cn. f. Cn. n. Fab. Ahenobarbus (cos. 54)) (Zmeskal 2009) Expand

Cic. ad Q. fr. III 6(8).5

Cn. Domitius (23) L. f. Cn. n. Ahenobarbus (cos. 32) (Zmeskal 2009) Expand

Caes. b.c. I 23.2, Cic. fam. VI 22.2, Cic. Phil. II 27

Career

  • Quaestor 66 Rome (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • Stood in violent opposition to the first of the laws of Manilius (Ascon. 45 C, emending praetura to quaestura; Schol. Bob. 119 Stangl). (Broughton MRR II)
    • Cos. 54. Quaestor 66. See MRR 2.153. Sumner also accepts emendation of praetura to quaestura in Ascon. 45C (Orators 140). Pontifex at his death in 48 (Nic. Dam. Vit. Aug. 4; cf. MRR 254, 277, 284). He must have won it later than 57 (MRR 2.205-206). The date is usually placed before 50, and it is assumed that when he was defeated in his candidacy for the augurate in that year by M. Antonius, he was attempting to secure the honor, almost impossibly rare under the Republic, of a place in both the major colleges. Shackleton Bailey points out that in the crucial passage (Cic. Fam. 8.14.1, per iniuriam . . . ereptum [lacuna] cuius ego auctor fuerim, nunc furit) the implication is that he had been previously robbed of an honor and has just been robbed again. In the lacuna after ereptum he supplies the word pontificatum, the priesthood regular in his family, instead of the usual auguratum. Domitius had for some reason been prevented from getting it, tried to be elected as augur, and was defeated again, with Caelius' help, by M. Antonius. Nevertheless, he must have been elected to a vacant plebeian place in the college of pontifices about this time, as he was a pontifex at his death in 48. On the whole question, see Shackleton Bailey, CLF 1.429-430; Illinois Class. Stud. 2, 1977, 223-228; cf. L. R. Taylor, AJPh 63, 1942, 385-412, esp. 4'04-406. (Broughton MRR III)
  • Aedilis Curulis 61 (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • Plin. NH 8.131; Solin. 26.10, p. 115 M; cf. Cic. Att. 1.16.12. (Broughton MRR II)
  • Praetor 58 Rome (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • Cic. QF 1.2.16; cf. Att. 2.24.3; Vat. 25. With C. Memmius he began an immediate attack upon Caesar's acta (Suet. Iul. 23; Nero 2.2; Schol. Bob. 130, 146, 151 Stangl; cf. Cic. Sest. 40; Vat. 15). Discussed a measure for the recall of Cicero from exile (Cic. Att. 3.15.6). (Broughton MRR II)
    • p. 754, footnote 453 (Brennan 2000)
  • Consul 54 (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • CIL 12.2.927-929; Cic. QF 2.13.3; Caes. BG 5.1.1; Ascon. 1, and 18 C; Dio 39, Index, and 60.2; 40, Index, and 1.1; Obseq. 64 (Gneo Domitio Appio Claudio); Chr. 354 (Aenobarbo et Phucro); Fast. Hyd. (Achenobarbo et Pulchro), so also Chr. Pasc.; Cassiod.; and on Clandius, Schol. Bob. 152 Stangl. See Degrassi 132, 494f. Domitius continued in strong opposition to the Triumvirate and their henchmen, against Caesar (Suet. Nero 2.2, cf. Iul. 24), against Gabinius (Cic. QF 2.11.2; Dio 39.60.3-4), and even opposed burial honors for Iulia (Dio 39.64). Claudius became reconciled with Cicero (Fam. 1.9.4 and 19; 3.10.8 and 10; QF 2.10.1-3; Scaur. 31-37), first aided Gabinius by using comitial days to delay the proceedings against him (Cic. QF 2.11.3), then attacked him (QF 3.2.3; Dio 39.60.3-4), aided Pomptinus at last to obtain his triumph (see Promagistrates), served along with a commission of ten Legates to settle disputes between Interamna and Reate (Varro RR 3.2.3; cf. Cic. Scaur. 27; Att. 4.15.5), and vowed a propylon to Demeter at Eleusis (CIL 12 .2.775). Both Consuls were involved in the election scandal of this year (Cic. Att. 4.15.7, and 17.2; cf. QF 3.1.16, and 2.3, and 3.2). Claudius proceeded to his province of Cilicia, probably without the benefit of a Lex curiata de imperio (Cic. Att. 4.18.4; Fam. 1.9.25; QF 3.2.3). (Broughton MRR II)
  • Quaesitor 52 (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • Presided over the trial of Milo under the Lex Pompeia de vi (Ascon. 38 C; Schol. Bob. 119 Stangl; cf. Cic. Mil. 22). (Broughton MRR II)
  • Pontifex? 50 (Rüpke 2005) Expand
    • A Pontifex at the time of his death in 48 (see 48, Pontifices), he must have been elected after 57 (see 57, Pontifices) and at the latest in the elections of 50. M. Antonius will therefore have ruined his attempt to attain both the pontificate and the augurate (see below, Augurs). (Broughton MRR II)
    • Cos. 54. Quaestor 66. See MRR 2.153. Sumner also accepts emendation of praetura to quaestura in Ascon. 45C (Orators 140). Pontifex at his death in 48 (Nic. Dam. Vit. Aug. 4; cf. MRR 254, 277, 284). He must have won it later than 57 (MRR 2.205-206). The date is usually placed before 50, and it is assumed that when he was defeated in his candidacy for the augurate in that year by M. Antonius, he was attempting to secure the honor, almost impossibly rare under the Republic, of a place in both the major colleges. Shackleton Bailey points out that in the crucial passage (Cic. Fam. 8.14.1, per iniuriam . . . ereptum [lacuna] cuius ego auctor fuerim, nunc furit) the implication is that he had been previously robbed of an honor and has just been robbed again. In the lacuna after ereptum he supplies the word pontificatum, the priesthood regular in his family, instead of the usual auguratum. Domitius had for some reason been prevented from getting it, tried to be elected as augur, and was defeated again, with Caelius' help, by M. Antonius. Nevertheless, he must have been elected to a vacant plebeian place in the college of pontifices about this time, as he was a pontifex at his death in 48. On the whole question, see Shackleton Bailey, CLF 1.429-430; Illinois Class. Stud. 2, 1977, 223-228; cf. L. R. Taylor, AJPh 63, 1942, 385-412, esp. 4'04-406. (Broughton MRR III)
  • Repulsa 50 (Pina Polo 2012) Expand
    • (aug.). pp. 65-72 (Pina Polo 2012)
  • Pontifex 49 to 48 (Rüpke 2005) Expand
    • A Pontifex at the time of his death in 48 (see 48, Pontifices), he must have been elected after 57 (see 57, Pontifices) and at the latest in the elections of 50. M. Antonius will therefore have ruined his attempt to attain both the pontificate and the augurate (see below, Augurs). (Broughton MRR II)
  • Proconsul 49 Gallia Transalpina, Achaea (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • Proconsul (Cic. Att. 8. 12B-D, prescripts). He was allotted Transalpine Gaul in succession to Caesar (Caes. BC 1.6.4; Cic. Fam. 16.12.3; Suet. Iul. 34.1; Nero 2.2; App. BC 2.32, and 38, and 82; cf. Lucan 7.607). Caesar captured him and such levies as he had raised at Corfinium, but released him (Caes. BC 1.15-23; Cic. Att. 7.13a.3, and 23, and 24, and 26; 8.1.1, and 3.7, and 6, and 7, and s, and 11A, and 11D.3-4, and 12.3, and 12A–D, and 15A.3; Liv. Per. 109; Vell. 2.50.1; Senec. Benef. 3.24; Lucan 2.478-527; Plin. NH 7.186; Suet. Iul. 34.1; Nero 2.2; Plut. Caes. 34.3-4; 35.1; App. BC 2.38; Flor. 2.13.19; Dio 41.10-11; Oros. 6.15.4). He then collected another force from his estates in Etruria and raised Massilia in revolt, and when this failed escaped to Pompey (Caes. BC 1.34.2, and 36, and 56-58; 2.3, and 22, and 28, and 32.8; Cic. Att. 8.14.3, and 15. 1; 9. 1. 1, and 3. 1, and 6.2, and 9.3; Plin. NH 7.186; Suet. Nero 2; Dio 41.21.3, and 25.2). (Broughton MRR II)
    • These men were witnesses to the resolutions of the Senate reported by Caelius to Cicero in Fam. 8.8.5-6. (Broughton MRR II)
  • Proconsul 48 Achaea (Broughton MRR II) Expand
    • Proconsul (see 49, Promagistrates). Sharp and rude in Pompey's councils (Cic. Fam. 6.21.1; Att. 11.6.2; Caes. BC 3.83; Suet. Nero 2.3; Plut. Pomp. 67.2; Caes. 42; App. BC 2.67). He held command of the left wing at Pharsalus and was killed in the rout (Caes. BC 3.99.5, cf. 88; Cic. Phil. 2.71; Suet. Nero 2.3; Lucan 7.220, the right wing, and 599-616; Tac. Ann. 4.44; Plut. Pomp. 69.1, the right wing; Caes. 44.2, the left wing; App. BC 2.76, the left wing, and 82). (Broughton MRR II)

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