Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus was a politician in
ancient Rome
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during the late 2nd and early 1st century BC.
He served as
praetor
Praetor ( , ), also pretor, was the title granted by the government of Ancient Rome to a man acting in one of two official capacities: (i) the commander of an army, and (ii) as an elected '' magistratus'' (magistrate), assigned to discharge vari ...
in
Sicily
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, probably in 96 BC, shortly after the
Second Servile War
The Second Servile War was an unsuccessful slave uprising against the Roman Republic on the island of Sicily. The war lasted from 104 BC until 100 BC.
Background
The Consul Gaius Marius was recruiting soldiers for the war against the Cimbri a ...
, when slaves had been forbidden to carry arms. He ordered a slave to be
crucified
Crucifixion is a method of capital punishment in which the victim is tied or nailed to a large wooden cross or beam and left to hang until eventual death from exhaustion and asphyxiation. It was used as a punishment by the Persians, Carthagin ...
for killing a wild
boar
The wild boar (''Sus scrofa''), also known as the wild swine, common wild pig, Eurasian wild pig, or simply wild pig, is a suid native to much of Eurasia and North Africa, and has been introduced to the Americas and Oceania. The species is ...
with a hunting spear. He was
consul
Consul (abbrev. ''cos.''; Latin plural ''consules'') was the title of one of the two chief magistrates of the Roman Republic, and subsequently also an important title under the Roman Empire. The title was used in other European city-states throu ...
in 94 BC. In the civil war between
Gaius Marius
Gaius Marius (; – 13 January 86 BC) was a Roman general and statesman. Victor of the Cimbric and Jugurthine wars, he held the office of consul an unprecedented seven times during his career. He was also noted for his important refor ...
and
Sulla
Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix (; 138–78 BC), commonly known as Sulla, was a Roman general and statesman. He won the first large-scale civil war in Roman history and became the first man of the Republic to seize power through force.
Sulla had t ...
, he took the side of the latter, and was murdered at Rome by the praetor
Damasippus on the orders of
Gaius Marius the Younger.
Orosius
Paulus Orosius (; born 375/385 – 420 AD), less often Paul Orosius in English, was a Roman priest, historian and theologian, and a student of Augustine of Hippo. It is possible that he was born in ''Bracara Augusta'' (now Braga, Portugal), t ...
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He was the son of
Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus, the consul in 122 BC, and brother of
Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus, the consul in 96.
See also
*
Ahenobarbus (disambiguation) Ahenobarbus (Latin, 'red-beard', literally 'bronze-beard'), also spelled Aenobarbus or Ænobarbus, may refer to:
* Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus (disambiguation), Romans
* Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus (disambiguation), Romans
* Lucius Domitius Ahen ...
, or others of this family
References
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82 BC deaths
2nd-century BC Romans
1st-century BC Roman consuls
Ancient Roman murder victims
Lucius (consul 660 AUC)
Roman governors of Sicily
Roman Republican praetors