Domĭtius Domitiănus

, a general of Diocletian in Egypt. He a umed the imperial purple at Alexandria, A.D. 288, and supported the dignity of emperor for about two years. He died a violent death.――Lucius. See: Ænobarbus .――Cnæus Ænobarbus, a Roman consul, who conquered Bituitus the Gaul, and left 20,000 of the enemy on the field of battle, and took 3000 prisoners.――A grammarian in the reign of Adrian. He was remarkable for his virtues, and his melancholy disposition.――A Roman who revolted from Antony to August us. He was at the battle of Pharsalia, and forced Pompey to fight by the mere force of his ridicule.――The father of Nero, famous for his cruelties and debaucheries. Suet on i us , Nero .――A tribune of the people, who conquered the Allobroges. Plutarch. ――A consul during whose consulate peace was concluded with Alexander king of Epirus. Livy , bk. 8 , ch. 17 .――A consul under Caligula. He wrote some few things now lost.――A Latin poet, called also Marsus, in the age of Horace. He wrote epigrams, remarkable for little besides their indelicacy. Ovid , ex Ponto , bk. 4 , poem 16, li. 5 .――Afer, an orator, who was preceptor to Quintilian. He disgraced his talents by his adulation, and by practising the arts of an informer under Tiberius and his succe ors. He was made a consul by Nero, and died A.D. 59.