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Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus was son of the Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus who had been consul in 192 BC,[1] was chosen pontifex in 172 BC when still a young man,[2] and in 169 BC was sent with two others as commissioners into Macedonia.[3] In 167 BC he was one of the ten commissioners for arranging the affairs of Macedonia in conjunction with Aemilius Paulus;[4] and when the consuls of 162 BC abdicated on account of some fault in the auspices in their election, he and Cornelius Lentulus were chosen consuls in their stead.[5][6]

Children

He was the father of Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus, who was consul in 122 BC.

References

  1. ↑ Smith, William (1867), "Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus (2)", in Smith, William (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. 1, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, p. 84
  2. ↑ Livy, xlii. 28
  3. ↑ Livy, xliv. 18
  4. ↑ Livy, xlv. 17
  5. ↑ Cicero, De Natura Deorum ii. 4, De Divinatione ii. 35
  6. ↑ Valerius Maximus, i. 1. § 3

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). "Ahenobarbus (2)". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. p. 84.


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