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  • Nero familiarly by the name Domitius; -- Domitius Ahenobarbus having been his name before he was adopted by Claudius.

    Nero Makers of History Series Jacob Abbott 1841

  • Perhaps the cruelty of Domitius is less astonishing than the indifference with which the Roman orator relates this circumstance, which affects him so little that he thus expresses himself: “Durum hoc fortasse videatur, neque ego in ullam partem disputo.”

    The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

  • 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

  • Domitius, that is, L. Domitius Ahenobarbus (Consul B.C. 54), may have commanded under him.

    Plutarch's Lives Volume III. 46-120? Plutarch 1839

  • Several, or even all of these pithy sayings attributed to Julia could be the invention of Macrobius or his first-century source, Domitius Marsus.

    Caesars’ Wives Annelise Freisenbruch 2010

  • The author, Macrobius, culled his material from a collection of witticisms edited in the first century by one Domitius Marsus, who, as a protégé of the Augustan socialite Maecenas, was presumably repeating stories that were making the rounds of Roman court gossip at the time.75

    Caesars’ Wives Annelise Freisenbruch 2010

  • Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus and Gaius Sosius arrived in Rome in June; both were to be consuls next year, something of a coup for Antony, whose adherents they were.

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

  • So when Pacorus and Labienus led their army into Syria at the beginning of February in the year of the consulship of Gnaeus Domitius Calvinus and Gnaeus Asinius Pollio, its Parthian content consisted solely of cataphracts.

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

  • Oh, excellent! thought Octavian when he saw the couple two days later at a dinner given by Gnaeus Domitius Calvinus.

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

  • Gaius Fonteius, Poplicola, Sosius, Titius and young Marcus Aemilius Scaurus were all in Antioch, but this new Mark Anthony hardly noticed them any more than he did Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus when he turned up, his governorship of Bithynia just too out of things for such a busybody of a man.

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

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