Domitia
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Domitiam Proper-name noun feminine accusative singular of Domitia
a sister of Cn. Domitius Ahenobarbus [Ahenobarbus, No. 10], and consequently an aunt of the emperor Nero. She was the wife of Crispus Passienus, who afterwards deserted her and married Agrippina, the mother of Nero. It is natural, therefore, that Tacitus should call her an enemy of Agrippina. After the murder of his mother, Nero ordered Domitia, who was already of an advanced age, to be poisoned, in order that he might get possession of the property, which she possessed at Baiae, and in the neighbourhood of Ravenna, on which estates he built magnificent gymnasia. (Tac. Ann. 13.19, 21 ; Suet. Nero 34; D. C. 61.17; Quint. Inst. 6.1.50, 3.74, 10.1. 7sec; 24.) [L.S]
a sister of Cn. Domitius Ahenobarbus [Ahenobarbus, No. 10], and of Domitia, and, consequently, like her an aunt of the emperor Nero. She was married to M. Valerius Messalla Barbatus, by whom she became the mother of Messallina, the wife of the emperor Claudius. There existed a rivalry of female vanity between her and Agrippina, the mother of Nero. Both wonen were equally bad and vicious in their conduct; Agrippina however succeeded, in A. D. 55, in inducing her son to sentence his aunt to death. (Tac. Ann. 11.37, &c., 12.64, &c. ; Suet. Cl. 26, Nero, 7.) [L.S]
a daughter of Domitius Corbulo, was married to L. Lamia Aemilianus, from whom she was carried away by Domitian about the time of Vespasian's accession. Immediately after Vespasian's return from the east, Domitian lived with her and his other mistresses on an estate near the Mons Albanus. Subsequently, however, he married her, and in A. D. 73 she bore him a son. But she was unfaithful to him, and kept up an adulterous intercourse with Paris, an actor. When this was discovered, in A. D. 83, Domitian repudiated her on the advice of Ursus, and henceforth lived with Julia, the daughter of his brother. Soon after, however, he formed a reconciliation with Domitia, because he said the people wished it; but he nevertheless continued his intercourse with Julia. Domitia never loved Domitian, and she knew of the conspiracy against his life; as she was informed that her own life was in danger, she urged the conspirators on, and Domitian was murdered in A. D. 96. (D. C. 67.3, 66.3, 15; Suet. Domit. 3, 22.) The coin annexed contains on the obverse the head of Domitia, with the legend Domitia Avgvsta Imp. Domit.
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plebeian, the members of which towards the end of the republic were looked upon as belonging to one of the most illustrious gentes. (Cic. Phil. 2.29; Plin. Nat. 7.57 ; V. Max. 6.2.8.) During the time of the republic, we meet with only two branches of this gens, the Ahenobarbi and Calvini, and, with the exception of a few unknown personages mentioned in isolated passages of Cicero, there is none without a cognomen. [L.S]
(1) Lepĭda, aunt of Nero, accused of magic and put to death (A.D. 54) through the intrigues of Agrippina, who was jealous of her influence over Nero (Tac. Ann. xii. 64 foll.).
(2) Domitilla, wife of Vespasian, who had by her Titus and Domitian and a daughter named Domitilla. She had been the mistress of a Roman knight and passed for a freedwoman; but she was declared of free birth on having been acknowledged by her father Flavius Liberalis, who held the situation of scribe to one of the quaestors. She died before Vespasian came to the throne (Suet. Vesp. 3).
(3) Longīna, daughter of the famous Corbulo, the general of Nero. She married Aelius Lamia, but was seduced by Domitian and, after the birth of a daughter, publicly raised to the throne. Hardly, however, had the emperor elevated her to the station of Augusta, when his jealousy was alarmed by certain familiarities to which she admitted the pantomime Paris, so that he drove her from the palace. The ascendency which she had acquired, however, over the vicious emperor was too strong to be thus suddenly dissolved, and she was recalled to her former station. Domitia was concerned, it is thought, in the conspiracy by which the emperor lost his life. She died during the reign of Trajan (Suet. Dom. 3).