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* Domitius Alexander is acclaimed emperor ( against Maxentius ) in Carthage, the African provinces come under his rule.

Domitius Alexander

* Maxentius, Roman usurper, reconquers the African provinces from Domitius Alexander.

* Domitius Alexander, Roman usurper ( approximate date )

Late in 308, Domitius Alexander was acclaimed emperor in Carthage, and the African provinces seceded from Maxentian rule.

In 311, during the civil war between emperor Maxentius and usurper Domitius Alexander ( a former governor of Africa ), the city was destroyed.

Lucius Domitius Alexander ( died ca.

Maxentius ordered Domitius Alexander, the vicar of Africa, to send his son to Rome to secure his loyalty.

Apart from the provinces in north Africa ( today's Algeria, Tunisia and western Libya ), Domitius Alexander also controlled Sardinia.

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Gnaeus Domitius Afer ( died 59 ) was a Roman orator and advocate, born at Nemausus ( Nîmes ) in Gallia Narbonensis.

Many Roman writers seem to have composed epigrams, including Domitius Marsus, whose collection Cicuta ( now lost ) was named after the poisonous plant Cicuta for its biting wit, and Lucan, more famous for his epic Pharsalia.

* Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo arrives in the East and take up an assignment as governor of Asia, with a secret brief from Nero and his chief ministers Seneca and Burrus to return Armenia to the Roman Empire.

* Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo, Roman General ( d. 67 )

* Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus and Lucius Arruntius Camillus Scribonianus become Roman consuls.

* Gaius Caesar Augustus Germanicus ( Caligula ) and Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo become Roman consuls.

* Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo is made commander of the Roman army in Germania Inferior.

* Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo, Roman commander in the east, captures Tigranocerta in Mesopotamia.

* Domitius Afer, Roman orator

* Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo is restored to command after the Roman debacle at the Battle of Rhandeia ; he invaded Armenia and defeated Tiridates I, who accepted Roman sovereignty ; Parthia withdrew from the war.

* Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo, Roman general, suicide ordered by Nero

* Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus commands the Roman army in Germania and crossed the Elbe.

* Domitius Ulpian, Roman jurist ( murdered in riot )

* Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus and Gaius Sosius become Roman Consuls.

* Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus and Publius Cornelius Scipio are Roman consuls.

They became parents to a younger Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus, and grandparents of the Roman Emperor Nero.

In 55 he received orders from Roman Emperor Nero to levy troops to make war against the Parthians, and in the year 59 he served under General Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo against King Tiridates I of Armenia, brother of the Parthian King Vologases I of Parthia.

* A minor Roman marriage deity named Domitius or Domidius ; see List of Roman deities # D

It was constructed in 118 BC by the proconsul, Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus, whose name it bore ; it was built around the same time the first Roman colony in Gaul, Colonia Narbo Martius ( Narbonne ) was founded.

Many Roman refugees and deserters joined him, and with these and his Hispanian volunteers he completely defeated several of Sulla's generals ( Fufidius, Domitius Calvinus and to some less-direct extent Thoranius ) and drove Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius, who had been specifically sent against him from Rome, out of Lusitania, or Hispania Ulterior as the Romans called it at the time.

The usurper L. Domitius Domitianus declared himself Augustus in July or August 297.

According to Suetonius, Domitius was a wealthy man with a despicable and dishonest character, who, according to Suetonius, was “ A man who was in every aspect of his life detestable ", and served as consul in 32.

* Quintillus commits suicide and is succeeded by an associate of his brother Lucius Domitius Aurelianus, the military leader who distinguished himself last year at the Battle of Naissus ( Serbia ).

While there, he cultivated a relationship with Domitius Afer, who died in 59.

During the Republic, no patrician Claudius adopted a member of another gens ; the emperor Claudius was the first who broke this custom, by adopting Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus, afterwards the emperor Nero.

* Nero Claudius Caesar Drusus Germanicus, better known as the emperor Nero, who reigned from AD 54 to 68 ; he was born Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus to Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus and Agrippina the Younger, but was adopted by the emperor Claudius in AD 50.

It is unknown who commissioned the Via Aquitania, but it is likely that Domitius Ahenobarbus built it in order to easily exact tributes from the newly conquered tribes.

Domitius was the only son of Antonia Major ( niece of the emperor Augustus and daughter of Augustus ' sister Octavia Minor who was married to triumvir Mark Antony ) and Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus ( consul 16 BC ).

Domitius was thus related to several notable figures who would dominate the Roman Empire during the 1st century.

On the Appian Way, Domitius was reported of having deliberately run over a child who was playing with his doll.

After January 41, the new Emperor Claudius asked Domitia and Crispus to divorce, so Crispus could marry Domitia's former sister-in-law Agrippina the Younger, who recently returned from exile and had her son Lucius Domitius ( Nero ) to care for.

When Lepida lived, Agrippina the Younger ( then a widower after Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus ' death ) tried to make shameless advances to Galba who was devoted to his wife and thus completely uninterested.

Pomponius ' mother was Vistilia, who by other marriages was the mother of Publius Suillius Rufus and the general Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo.

It was occupied by Capadocian legions under the Roman general Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo, who razed it to the ground in 59 AD as part of the first, short-lived, Roman conquest of Armenia.

His stepson was Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus, who later became the Roman Emperor Nero.

Quintilian, who had heard Julius Africanus, spoke of him and Domitius Afer as the best orators of their time.

Gnaeus Domitius Calvinus was a Roman general, senator and consul ( both in 53 BC and 40 BC ) who was a loyal partisan of Caesar and Octavianus.

In 47 a revolt by the Chauci, who took to piratical activities along the Gallic coast, was subdued by Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo.

In all events it is certain that Sulmo was a well-peopled and considerable town in 49 BC, when it was occupied by Domitius Calvinus with a garrison of seven cohorts ; but the citizens, who were favorably inclined towards Julius Caesar, opened their gates to his lieutenant M. Antonius as soon as he presented himself.