[2][3][4] He brought forward a law (lex Domitia de Sacerdotiis) by which the priests of the superior colleges were to be elected by the people in the Tribal Assembly (seventeen of the tribes voting) instead of by co-optation.
They took joint action, however, in suppressing the recently established Latin rhetorical schools, which they regarded as injurious to public morality;[8][9] in the words of Cicero, these were seen as 'schools of impudence'.
Domitius was of a violent temper, and was moreover in favor of the ancient simplicity of living, while Crassus loved luxury and encouraged art.
Among the many sayings recorded of both, we are told that Crassus observed, "that it was no wonder that a man had a beard of brass, who had a mouth of iron and a heart of lead.
[15] Ahenobarbus apparently died in 88 BC, during the consulship of Sulla, and was succeeded as pontifex by Quintus Mucius Scaevola.