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GNAEUS DOMITIUS AHENOBARBUS

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AHENOBARBUS , son of the above, accompanied his See also:father at See also:Corfinium and Pharsalus, and, having been pardoned by See also:Caesar, returned to See also:Rome in 46. After Caesar's assassination he attached himself to See also:Brutus and See also:Cassius, and in 43 was condemned by the lex Pedia as having been implicated in the See also:plot. He obtained considerable See also:naval successes in the Ionian See also:Sea against the triumvirate, but finally, through the See also:mediation of Asinius See also:Pollio, became reconciled to Antony, who made him See also:governor of See also:Bithynia. He took See also:part in Antony's See also:Parthian See also:campaigns, and was See also:consul in 32. When See also:war See also:broke out between Antony and Octavian, he at first supported Antony, but,, disgusted with his intrigue with See also:Cleopatra, went over to Octavian shortly before the See also:battle of See also:Actium (31). He died soon afterwards(Dio Cassius xlviii.-l; See also:Appian, See also:Bell. Civ. iv., v.). His son was married to Antonia, daughter of Antony, and became the grandfather of the See also:emperor See also:Nero. See Drumann, Geschichte Rom., and ed. by Groebe,vol. iii. pp.14 if.

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