Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus

In 50 he adopted her son, Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus, who took the name Nero and ousted from the succession Claudius's son by Messalina, Britannicus (b. 41 or 42 and inheriting his name from his father's British triumph).

37-41 2001

The elder Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus, consul not long after his brother the reforming Pontifex Maximus, was executed in his home.

Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993

He was married, she learned — to one Cuspia, daughter of a publicanus, and his sister was married to Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus, the younger brother of the Pontifex Maximus; dowering his sister had been a staggering expense, one he had only managed to achieve by marrying his Cuspia, whose father was enormously wealthy.

The Grass Crown McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1991

Lentulus Crus rode away from the conference, his litter side by side with that of Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus, the consular, whom we will know as Domitius to distinguish from his son and namesake.

A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. William Stearns Davis 1903

"I advise?" replied Pratinas; "I am only a poor ignorant Hellene, and who am I, to give advice to Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus, a most noble member of the most noble of nations!"

A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. William Stearns Davis 1903

Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus clearly amounted to more than either of his companions.

A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. William Stearns Davis 1903

The next we hear of her is in 28, when, at the age of thirteen, she was married at the instigation of her great-uncle Tiberius to an impeccably blue-blooded but rather shady grandson of Octavia, Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus, a man once accused of deliberately driving his carriage over a child playing with a doll on a village road.4 The marriage eventually produced one son born at Antium on 15 December 37, Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus, better known to history simply as Nero.

Caesars’ Wives Annelise Freisenbruch 2010

On 25 February 50 Agrippina’s hopes were given a boost when Claudius adopted Nero as his own son and changed the boy’s name from Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus to the more Julio-Claudian denomination of Nero Claudius Drusus Germanicus Caesar.

Caesars’ Wives Annelise Freisenbruch 2010

My new brother-in-law, Cato Salonianus, has been left without a feather to fly with — he’s strapped by dowry payments to Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus on behalf of his sister — and of course his wife’s fortune has been withdrawn, along with the support of her social-climbing father.

The Grass Crown McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1991

I gather Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus, who is married to the girl’s aunt — Cato Salonianus’s sister — is very seriously thinking of my little Porcia for his son, Lucius.

The Grass Crown McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1991