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Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus

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GNAEUS DOMITIUS AHENOBARBUS, tribune of the people 104 B.C., brought forward a law (lex Domitia de Sacerdotiis) by which the priests of the superior colleges were to be elected by the people in the comitia tributa instead of by co-optation; the law was repealed by Sulla, revived by Julius Caesar and (perhaps) again repealed by Marcus Antonius, the triumvir (Cicero, De Lege Agraria,ii. 7; Suetonius, Nero, 2). Ahenobarbus was elected pontifex maximus in io3, consul in g6 and censor in 02 vvith Lucius Licinius Crassus the orator, with whom he was frequently at variance. They took joint action, however, in suppressing the recently established Latin rhetorical schools, which they regarded as injurious to public morals (Aulus Gellius xv. I I).

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