Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus (praetor 50 BC)

Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus (praetor 50 BC)

:"For others with this family name, see Ahenobarbus."Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus was an ancient Roman who served as praetor in 80 BC, and commander of the province of Hispania Citerior, with the title of proconsul.Citation | last = Smith | first = William | author-link = William Smith (lexicographer) | contribution = Ahenobarbus (15), Lucius Domitius | editor-last = Smith | editor-first = William | title = Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology | volume = 1 | pages = 86 | publisher = Little, Brown and Company | place = Boston | year = 1867 | contribution-url = http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0095.html ] In 79 BC, he was summoned into Hispania Ulterior by Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius, who was in want of assistance against Quintus Sertorius, but he was defeated and killed by Hirtuleius, quaestor of Sertorius, near the Anas. [Plutarch, "Sert." 12] [Livy, "Epit." 90] [Eutropius vi. 1] [Florus, iii. 22] [Orosius, v. 23] His relation to the distinguished Ahenobarbus family is unclear.

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