Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus (consul 162 BC)
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Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus, son of the Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus who had been consul in 192 BC,[1] was chosen pontifex in 172 BC, when still a young man,[2] and in 169 BC was sent with two others as commissioners into Macedonia.[3] In 167 BC he was one of the ten commissioners for arranging the affairs of Macedonia in conjunction with Aemilius Paulus;[4] and when the consuls of 162 BC abdicated on account of some fault in the auspices in their election, he and Cornelius Lentulus were chosen consuls in their stead.[5][6]
He was the father of Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus, who was consul in 122 BC.
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- ↑ Livy, xlii. 28
- ↑ Livy, xliv. 18
- ↑ Livy, xlv. 17
- ↑ Cicero, De Natura Deorum ii. 47, De Divinatione ii. 35
- ↑ Valerius Maximus, i. 1. § 3
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Preceded by
P. Cornelius Scipio Nasica Corculum and C. Marcius Figulus
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Suffect consul of the Roman Republic with P. Cornelius Lentulus 162 BC |
Succeeded by M. Valerius Messalla and C. Fannius Strabo |
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