Although some historians such as Ronald Syme have argued that the Domitius who served with Gaius Caesar may have been an older brother of his and not Nero's father. At the Roman Forum, Domitius reportedly pulled out an eye of an equestrian because the equestrian openly criticized him. On the Appian Way, Domitius was reported to have deliberately run over a child who was playing with his doll. The reported reason was that the freedman did not get as drunk as Domitius did. Domitius killed his freedman for refusing to drink as much as he was told. Career ĭescribing him as "a man loathsome in every respect", Suetonius says that as a young man, Domitius was serving on the staff of his second cousin Gaius Caesar in the east, in AD 2. He had at least two sisters Domitia and Domitia Lepida, and possibly an older brother named Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus, whom ancient sources confuse his early career and birthdate with. Domitius was the son of Antonia Major, the niece of emperor Augustus, and her husband Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus. Biography Early life ĭomitius' birthdate is uncertain some interpretations are that he was born around 17 BC while other sources argue he was born a generation later in 2 BC. He married Agrippina the Younger and became the father of the emperor Nero. Domitius was the son of Antonia Major (daughter of emperor Augustus' sister Octavia Minor and her second husband Mark Antony). 17 or 2 BC – January AD 41) was a member of the imperial Julio-Claudian dynasty of Ancient Rome.
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