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DOLABELLA, PUBLIUS CORNELIUS

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DOLABELLA, PUBLIUS See also:CORNELIUS , See also:Roman See also:general and son-in-See also:law of See also:Cicero, was See also:born about 70 B.C. He was by far the most important of the Dolabellae, a See also:family of the patrician gens See also:Cornelia. In the See also:civil See also:wars he at first took the See also:side of See also:Pompey, introduced (as one of the tribunes) a See also:bill proposing that all debts should be cancelled. This was strongly resisted by his colleagues, and led to serious disturbances in the See also:city. See also:Caesar, on ,his return from See also:Alexandria, seeing the expediency of removing Dolabella from See also:Rome, took him as one of his generals in the expedition to See also:Africa and See also:Spain. On Caesar's See also:death Dolabella seized the insignia of the consulship (which had already been conditionally promised him), and, by making See also:friends with See also:Brutus and the other assassins, was confirmed in his See also:office. When, however, M. See also:Antonius offered him the command of the expedition against the Parthians and the See also:province of See also:Syria he changed sides at once. His See also:journey to the province was marked by plundering, See also:extortion and the See also:murder of C. Trebonius, proconsul of See also:Asia, who refused to allow him to enter See also:Smyrna. He was thereupon declared a public enemy and superseded by C. See also:Cassius (the murderer of Caesar),who attacked him in See also:Laodicea.

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capture of the See also:place, Dolabella ordered one of his soldiers to kill him (43). Throughout his See also:life he was a profligate and a spendthrift. See Cicero's Letters (ed. See also:Tyrrell and See also:Purser) ; G. See also:Boissier, Cicero and his Friends (Eng. trans., 1897); See also:Orelli, Onomasticon Tullianum; Dio Cassius xli. 40, xlii. 29, xliii. 51, xliv. 22, xlvi. 40, xlvii. 30; See also:Appian, See also:Bell. civ. iii. 7, iv.

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