"With Domitian, only forty years later, it had bcome a convention of polite speech to hail the emperor as dominus et deus, 'my lord and god.'"

christianity and classical culture by thomas cochrane, 142.

"And Thomas answered and said to Him, 'My Lord and my God!'"

john 20:28

we win. domitian was assassinated, and damnatio memoriae passed on him by the senate. our Dominus et Deus lives.