Lucius Domitius

Also known as: Domitius · Family: Roman · Role: praetor · First appears: Julius Caesar 23

Life events

• Lucius Domitius became a candidate for the consulship.(Julius Caesar 24)
  • “when Lucius Domitius became a candidate for the consulship”
• Lucius Domitius threatened to strip Julius Caesar of his army command if elected consul.(Julius Caesar 24)
  • With: Julius Caesar
  • “openly threatened that, upon his being elected consul, he would effect that which he could not accomplish when he was praetor, and divest him of the command of the armies”
• Julius Caesar forced Lucius Domitius to surrender and dismissed him.(Julius Caesar 34 · 📍 Corsinium)
  • With: Julius Caesar
  • “having obliged Lucius Domitius, who had been tumultuously nominated his successor, and held Corsinium with a garrison, to surrender, and dismissed him”

Julius Caesar 23

• enemies with Julius Caesar “When the term of his consulship had expired, upon a motion being made in the senate by Caius Memmius and Lucius Domitius, the praetors, respecting the transactions of the year past, he offered to refer himself to the house; but they declining the business, after three days spent in vain altercation, he set out for his province.”

Julius Caesar 24

• enemies with Julius Caesar “But when Lucius Domitius became a candidate for the consulship, and openly threatened that, upon his being elected consul, he would effect that which he could not accomplish when he was praetor, and divest him of the command of the armies, he sent for Crassus and Pompey to Lucca, a city in his province, and pressed them, for the purpose of disappointing Domitius, to sue again for the consulship, and to continue him in his command for five years longer; with both which requisitions they complied.”

Julius Caesar 34

• enemies with Julius Caesar “He took possession of Picenum, Umbria, and Etruria; and having obliged Lucius Domitius, who had been tumultuously nominated his successor, and held Corsinium with a garrison, to surrender, and dismissed him, he marched along the coast of the Upper Sea, to Brundusium, to which place the consuls and Pompey were fled with the intention of crossing the sea as soon as possible.”

Nero 1

• younger kin: Nero (Lucius Domitius is presented as the progenitor of the Aenobarbi, whose descent is connected with Nero.) “The Aenobarbi derive both their extraction and their cognomen from one Lucius Domitius, of whom we have this tradition: --As he was returning out of the country to Rome, he was met by two young men of a most august appearance, who desired him to announce to the senate and people a victory, of which no certain intelligence had yet reached the city. To prove that they were more than mortals, they stroked his cheeks, and thus changed his hair, which was black, to a bright colour, resembling that of brass; which mark of distinction descended to his posterity, for they had generally red beards. This family had the honour of seven consulships, one triumph, and two censorships; and being admitted into the patrician order, they continued the use of the same cognomen, with no other praenomina than those of Cneius and Lucius. These, however, they assumed with singular irregularity; three persons in succession sometimes adhering to one of them, and then they were changed alternately. For the first, second, and third of the Aenobarbi had the praenomen of Lucius, and again the three following, successively, that of Cneius, while those who came after were called, by turns, one, Lucius, and the other, Cneius. It appears to me proper to give a short account of several of the family, to show that Nero so far degenerated from the noble qualities of his ancestors, that he retained only their vices; as if those alone had been transmitted to him by his descent.”

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Extracted from the original text of The Lives of the Twelve Caesars. Made with Rho MD.