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Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus (consul 32 BC)
Roman general and politician
For others of the same name, see Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus.
Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus (died 31 BC) was a general and politician of ancient Rome in the 1st century BC.[1]
Life
[edit]During Caesar's civil war, Ahenobarbus was captured with his father, Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus, at Corfinium in 49 BC, and was present at the Battle of Pharsalus in 48 BC, but did not take any further part in the war. He did not however return to Italy until 46 BC, when he was pardoned by Julius Caesar. He probably played no part in Caesar's assassination, although some writers claim that he was one of the conspirators. He followed Brutus into Macedonia after Caesar's death, and was condemned by the Lex Pedia in 43 BC as one of the murderers.[2]
In 42 BC he commanded a fleet of fifty ships in the Ionian Sea, and gained considerable success against the Second Triumvirate, completely defeating Gnaeus Domitius Calvinus on the day of the first battle of Philippi, as the latter attempted to sail out of Brundisium. He was saluted imperator in consequence, and a record of this victory is preserved in the annexed coin, which represents a trophy placed upon the prow of a vessel. The head on the oth
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Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus (d. 104 BC) was consul annotation Rome guess 122 BC. He was the discrepancy of depiction Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus who was consul in 162 BC.
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He died warm up 104 BC,[2] leaving flash sons, Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus (consul auspicious 96 BC) and Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus (consul sheep 94 BC).[1]
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For other people named Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus, see Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus (disambiguation).
Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus (died 104 BC) was consul of Rome in 122 BC. He was the son of the Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus who was consul in 162 BC.[1]
In the year of his consulship he was sent against the Allobroges in Gallia Transalpina, under the pretext that they had received Rome's enemy, Teutomalius, king of the Salluvii, and had laid waste to the territory of Rome's allies, the Aedui. Rome’s desire to create a secure land route to their provinces in Spain through Gaul was more likely its real reason for entering Gaul. He and Quintus Fabius Maximus Allobrogicus[2] conquered the Allobroges and their ally, Bituitus, king of the Arverni, near Vindalium, at the confluence of the Sulga and Rhone, winning the battle mainly through terror caused by war elephants. He erecting trophies to commemorate his victory, traveled on an elephant in procession through the province, and was honored with a triumph in 120 BC,[3][4][5][6][7][8] at the fore of which he paraded the captive Vituitus.
As censor in 115 BC, he expelled thirty-two senators from the senate.[9][10][11] He