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DOLABELLA, PUBLIUS CORNELIUS

This article appears in Volume V08, Page 386 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: DIO-DRO
DOLABELLA, PUBLIUS CORNELIUS , Roman general and son-in-law of Cicero, was born about 70 B.C. He was by far the most important of the Dolabellae, a family of the patrician gens
Cornelia
 . In the civil wars he at first took the side of Pompey,
introduced (as one of the tribunes) a bill proposing that all debts should be cancelled. This was strongly resisted by his colleagues, and led to serious disturbances in the city. Caesar, on ,his return from
Alexandria
 , seeing the expediency of removing Dolabella from Rome, took him as one of his generals in the expedition to Africa and Spain. On Caesar's death Dolabella seized the insignia of the consulship (which had already been conditionally promised him), and, by making friends with Brutus and the other assassins, was confirmed in his office. When, however, M.
Antonius
  offered him the command of the expedition against the Parthians and the province of Syria he changed sides at once. His journey to the province was marked by plundering,
extortion
  and the murder of C. Trebonius, proconsul of
Asia
 , who refused to allow him to enter Smyrna. He was thereupon declared a public enemy and superseded by C.
Cassius
  (the murderer of Caesar),who attacked him in
Laodicea
 . On the capture of the place, Dolabella ordered one of his soldiers to kill him (43). Throughout his
life
  he was a profligate and a spendthrift.
See Cicero's Letters (ed.
Tyrrell
  and Purser) ; G. Boissier, Cicero and his Friends (Eng. trans., 1897);
Orelli
 , Onomasticon Tullianum; Dio
Cassius
  xli. 40, xlii. 29, xliii. 51, xliv. 22, xlvi. 40, xlvii. 30; Appian, Bell. civ. iii. 7, iv. 6o.


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