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AHENOBARBUS (" brazen-bearded ")

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 430 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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AHENOBARBUS (" brazen-bearded ")

AHENOBARBUS (" brazen-bearded ") , the name of a plebeian See also:

ROMAN

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FAMILY

family of the gens Domitia . The name was derived from the red See also:

beard and See also:

HAIR (a word common to Teutonic languages)

hair by which many of the family were distinguished .

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