Roman plebeian family name, attested from the 4th cent. BC onwards (ThlL, Onom. 3,217-227). The most important families into the 1st cent. AD are the Ahenobarbi [I 1-8] and the Calvini [I 9-12]. Identification of some members of the family in the 2nd cent. BC is uncertain.
Family history in Suet. Ner. 1-5. Legend of the origin of the cognomen (ThlL, 1,135; in manuscript also Aenobarbus) ‘Red-beard’, ‘Bro…
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Elvers, Karl-Ludwig (Bochum),
Eck, Werner (Cologne),
Bleckmann, Bruno (Strasbourg) and
Schmidt, Peter L. (Constance),
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