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in 192 BC, was chosen

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in 172 BC when still a young man, and in 169 BC was sent with two others as commissioners into

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. In 167 BC he was one of the ten commissioners for arranging the affairs of Macedonia in conjunction with

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; and when the consuls of 162 BC abdicated on account of some fault in the

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s in their

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, he and Cornelius Lentulus were chosen consuls in their stead.

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Children

He was the father of Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus, who was consul in 122 BC.

References

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