Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus (consul 54 BC)
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Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus, consul 54 BC was an enemy of Julius Caesar and a strong supporter of the aristocratical party.
At first strongly opposed to Pompey, he afterwards sided with him against Caesar. Ahenobarbus was the elected magistrate presiding over the trial against Titus Annius Milo in 52 BC for the murder of Publius Clodius, as related by Asconius' summary of Cicero's Pro Milone. He was consul in 54 BC, and in 49 BC he was appointed by the senate to succeed Caesar as governor of Gaul. After the outbreak of the civil war he commanded the Pompeian troops at Corfinium, but was obliged to surrender. Although treated with great generosity by Caesar, he stirred up Massilia (today's Marseille) to an unsuccessful resistance against him. He lead the Republicans during the siege of the city but upon its surrender, he joined Pompey in Greece and was slain in the flight after the battle of Pharsalus, in which he commanded the right wing against Marc Antony (Caesar, Bellum Civile, i., ii., iii.; Dio Cassius xxxix., xli.; Appian, B.C. ii. 82).
He was the son of Gn. Domitius Ahenobarbus (consul 96 BC), and the father of Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus (consul 32 BC). Ahenobarbus was married to Porcia Catones, the sister of Cato the younger and was a friend of Cicero.
