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.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.