164, ship, and afterwards received
Macedonia
for his
195—204), and Zachariae has given some ex- province.
195—204), and Zachariae has given some ex- province.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - a
i.
17.
) There was also a Pythagorean philosopher
189, and obtained the southern part of Spain for Dius, who wrote a work nepi karlovñs, of which
his province. On his way thither he was sur- two fragments are preserved in Stobaeus. (Tit.
rounded by Ligurians, who cut to pieces a great lxv. 16, 17. )
[L. S. ]
part of his forces: he himself was wounded, and DIYLLUS (Abulos), an Athenian, who wrote
escaped to Massilia, where however he died on the a history of Greece and Sicily in 26 or 27 books.
third day after. (Liv. xxxvii. 47, 50, 57. ) [L. S. ] It was divided apparently into several parts, the
DIVES, L. CANULEIUS, was appointed first of which extended from the seizure of the
praetor in B. c. 171, and obtained Spain for his Delphic temple by Philomelus (where the history
province. But before he went to his post, several of Callisthenes ended) to the siege of Perinthus, by
Spanish tribes sent embassies to Rome to complain Philip (B. C. 357—340), and the second from B. C.
of the ararice and insolence of their Roman go- 340 to 336, the date of Philip's death. The work
Hereupon L. Canuleius Dives was com- was carried on, according to Diodorus, down to B. C.
missioned to appoint five recuperatores of senato- | 298, from which period Psaon, of Platae, continued
rian rank to inquire into each particular case of it. If we accede to Casaubon's substitution of
extortion, and to allow the accused to choose their alvilos for Aiduuos, in Diog. Laërt. v. 76, we
own pleaders. In consequence of the investiga- must reckon also a work on drinking-parties
tions which were thus commenced, two men who (ovutodiaká) among the writings of Diyllus. The
had been praetors in Spain withdrew into exact period at which he flourished cannot be ascer
voluntary exile. The pleaders, probably bribed tained, but he belongs to the age of the Ptolemies.
by the guilty, contrived to suppress the whole (Diod. xvi. 14, 76, xxi. , Fragm. 5, p. 490 ; Plut.
inquiry, as men of rank and influence were in- de llerod. Mal. 26 ; Ath. iv. p. 155, a, xiii. p. 593,
volved in it. L. Canuleius likewise is not free f ; Maussac. ad Harpocrat. s. v. 'Apotiwv; Wesse-
from the suspicion of having assisted the pleaders, ling, ad Diod. xvi. 14; Clinton, F. H. vol. ii. sub
for he joined them in dropping the matter, and ann. 357, 339, 298, p. 377. )
(E. E. )
forth with assembled his troops, and proceeded to his DIYLLUS (Awniós), a Corinthian statuary,
province. After his arrival in Spain, another in- who, in conjunction with Amyclaeus, executed the
teresting embassy was sent to Rome. Roman armies greater part of the bronze group which the Pho-
had for many years been stationed in Spain, and cians dedicated at Delphi. (Paus. x. 13. 4;
numbers of the soldiers had married Spanish women. AMYCLAEUS ; Chionis. )
[P. S. ]
At the time when Canuleius was in Spain, the DO'CIMUS (Aókiuos), one of the officers in
number of persons who had sprung from such mar- the Macedonian army, who after the death of
riages is said to have amounted to upwards of 4000, Alexander supported the party of Perdiccas. After
and they now petitioned the senate to assign to the death of Perdiccas he united with Attalus and
them a town, where they might settle. The senate Alcetas, and was taken prisoner together with the
decreed that they should give in their names to former when their combined forces were defeated
Canuleius, and that, if he would manumit them, by Antigonus in Pisidia, B. C. 320. (Diod.
they were to settle as colonists at Carteia, where xviii. 45, Polyaen. iv. 6. § 7. ) The captives were
they were to form a colonia libertinorum. (Liv. confined in a strong fort, but, during the expedi-
xlii. 28, 31, xliii. 2, 3. )
[L. S. ] tion of Antigonus against Eumenes, they con-
DI'VICO, a commander of the Helvetians in trived to overpower their guards, and make them-
the war against L. Cassius, in B. c. 107. Nearly selves masters of the fortress. Docimus, however,
fifty years later, B. C. 58, when J. Caesar was pre- having quitted the castle to carry on a negotiation
paring to attack the Helvetians, they sent an em- with Stratonice, the wife of Antigonus, was again
bassy to him, headed by the aged Divico, whose made prisoner. (Diod. xix. 16. ) He appears
courageous speech is recorded by Caesar. (B. G. i. after this to have entered the service of Antigonus,
13; comp. Oros. v. 15; Liv. Epit. 65. ) [L. S. ) as we find him in 313 B. C. sent by that prince
DIVITI'ACUS, an Aeduan noble, and brother with an army to establish the freedom of the
of Dumnorix, is mentioned by Cicero ( de Dir. i. 11) | Greek cities in Caria. (Diod. xix. 75 ; Droysen,
as belonging to the order of Druids, and professing Hellenismus, vol. i. p. 358. ). In the campaign pre-
much knowledge of the secrets of nature and of divi- ceding the battle of Ipsus, he held the strong for-
nation. He was a warm adherent of the Romans tress of Synnada in Phrygia in charge for Anti-
and of Caesar, who, in consideration of his earnest gonus, but was induced to surrender it into the
entreaties, pardoned the treason of Dumnorix in hands of Lysimachus. (Diod. xx. 107; Pau-
B. C. 58. In the same year he took the most pro- san. i. 8. 1. ) It is probable that he had been
minent part among the Gallic chiefs in requesting governor of the adjoining district for some time :
Caesar's aid against Ariovistus ( see p. 287); he had, and he had founded there the city called after him
some time before, gone even to Rome to ask the Docimeium. (Steph. Byz, s. 1'. Aokiuerov, Droy-
senate for their interference, but without success. sen, Hellenismus, vol. ii. p. 665; Eckhel, iii. p.
It was probably during this visit that he was the 151. ) His name is not mentioned after the fall
guest of Cicero (de Div. l. c. ). Throughout, Caesar of Antigonis.
[E. H. B. )
3 x
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1058
DOLABELLA.
DOLABELLA.
DO'CIMUS or DOCI'MIUS. To a supposed aedile in B. c. 165, in which year he and his col.
Graeco-Roman jurist of this name has been some- league, Sex. Julius Caesar, had the Hecyra of Te-
times attributed the authorship of a legal work in rence performed at the festival of the Megalesia.
alphabetical order, called by Harmenopulus ($ 49) In B. c. 159 he was consul with M. Fulvius No
To uerpov katà Otoixeiov, and usually known by bilior. (Title of Terent. Hecyr. ; Suet. Vit. Te-
the name of Synopsis Minor. It is principally bor- rent. 5. )
rowed from a work of Michael Attaliata. A fragment 5. Cn. CORNELIUS DOLABELLA, a grandson of
of the work relating to the authority of the Leges No. 4, and a son of the Cn. Cornelius Dolabella
Rhodiae, was published by S. Schardius (Basel who was put to death in B. c. 100, together with
1561), at the end of the Naval Laws, and the the tribune Appuleius Saturninus. During the
same fragment appears in the collection of Leun- civil war between Marius and Sulla, Dolabella
clavius (J. G. R. ii. p. 472). Pardessus has pub- sided with the latter, and in B. C. 81, when Sulla
Jished some further fragments of the Synopsis was dictator, Dolabella was raised to the consul-
Minor (Collection de Lois Maritimes, i. pp.
164, ship, and afterwards received Macedonia for his
195—204), and Zachariae has given some ex- province. He there carried on a successful war
tracts from it (Ilist. Jur. G. R. p. 76); but the against the Thracians, for which he was rewarded
greater part of the work is still in manuscript. on his return with a triumph. In B. c. 77, how-
Bach conjectures that the compilation of the Rho- ever, young Julius Caesar charged him with having
dian laws themselves was made by Docimus been guilty of extortion in his province, but he
(Hist. Jur. Rom. lib. iv. c. 1, sect. 3. § 26, p. was acquitted. (Oros. v. 17; Plut. Sulla, 28,
630); but Zachariae is of opinion, that the only &c. ; Appian, B. C. i. 100; Suet. Caes. 4, 49,
reason for attributing to him the authorship of the 55; Vell. Pat. ii. 43; Aurel. Vict. de Vir.
Synopsis Minor was, that the manuscript of II. 78 ; Val. Max. viii. 9. § 3; Cic. in
Vienna, from which the fragment in Schardius Pison. 19, Brut. 92, de Leg. Agr. ii. 14 ; Tacit.
and Leunclavius was published, once belonged to de Orat. 34 ; Gellius, xv. 28 ; Ascon. in Scaur.
a person named Docimus.
[J. T. G. ] p. 29, in Cornel. p. 73, ed. Orelli. )
DODON (Awwwv), a son of Zeus by Europa, 6. CN. CORNELIUS DOLABELLA, was praetor
from whom the oracle of Dodona was believed to urbanus, in B. C. 81, when the cause of P. Quin-
have derived its name. (Steph. Byz. s. r. Awowvn. ) tius was tried. Cicero charges him with having
Other traditions traced the name to a nymph of the acted on that occasion unjustly and against all
name of Dodone.
(L. S. ) established usages. The year after he had Cilicia
DOLABELLA, sometimes written Dolobella, for his province, and C. Malleolus was his quaes-
the name of a family of the patrician Cornelia tor, and the notorious Verres his legate. Dola-
gens. (Ruhnken, ad Vell. Pat. ii. 43. )
bella not only tolerated the extortions and rob-
1. P. CORNELIUS DOLABELLA MAXIMUS, was beries committed by them, but shared in their
consul in B. C. 283 with Cn. Domitius Calvinus, booty. He was especially indulgent towards
and in that year conquered the Senones, who had Verres, and, after Malleolus was murdered, he
defeated the praetor L. Caecilius, and murdered made Verres his proquaestor. After his return to
the Roman ambassadors. Owing to the loss of Rome, Dolabella was accused by M. Aemilius
the consular Fasti for that time we do not hear of Scaurus of extortion in his province, and on that
his triumph, though he undoubtedly celebrated his occasion Verres not only deserted his accomplice,
victory by a triumph. In B. c. 279 he, together but furnished the accuser with all the necessary
with c. Fabricius and Q. Aemilius, went to information, and even spoke himself publicly
Pyrrhus as ambassadors to effect an exchange of against Dolabella. Many of the crimes com-
prisoners. (Eutrop. ii. 6; Florus, i. 13; Appian, mitted by Verres himself were thus put to the
Samnit
. 6, Gall. 11; Dionys. Excerpt, p. 2344, account of Dolabella, who was therefore con-
ed. Reiske, and p. 75, ed. Frankfurt. )
demned. He went into exile, and left his wife
2. CN. CORNELIUS DOLABELLA, was inaugi and children behind him in great poverty. (Cic.
rated in B. C. 208 as rex sacrorum in the place of pro Quint. 2, 8; in Verr. i. 4, 15, 17, 29; Ascon,
M. Marcius, and he held this office until his death in Cornel. p. 110, ed. Orelli, who however con-
in B. c. 180. (Liv. xxvii. 36, xl. 42. )
founds him with No. 5. )
3. L. CORNELIUS DOLABELLA, was duumvir 7. P. CORNELIUS DOLABELLA, was praetor ur-
navalis in B. C. 180. In that year his kinsman, banus in B. C. 67 ; if, as is usually supposed, this
Cn. Cornelius Dolabella, the rex sacrorum, died, be the year in which Cicero spoke for Aulus Cae-
and our Dolabella wanted to become his successor. cina. (Cic. pro Caec. 8. ) He seems to be the
But C. Servilius, the pontifex maximus, before in- same person as the Dolabella who is mentioned
augurating him, demanded of him to resign his by Valerius Maximus, (viii. 1, Ambustae, $ 2,) as
office of duumvir navalis. When Dolabella re- governor of Asia, with the title of proconsul.
fused to obey this command, the pontifex inflicted (Comp. Gell. xii. 7, where he bears the prae-
a fine upon him. Dolabella appealed against it to nomen Cneius ; Amm. Marc. xxix. 2. )
the people. Several tribes had already given their 8. P. Cornelius DOLABELLA, perhaps a son
vote that Dolabella ought to obey, and that he of No. 7, was one of the most profligate men of
should be released from the fine if he would resign his time. He was born about B. c. 70, and is
the office of duumvir navalis, when some sign in said to have been guilty, even in early youth, of
the heavens broke up the assembly. This was a some capital offences, which might have cost him
fresh reason for the pontiff's refusing to inaugurate his life, had not Cicero defended and saved him
Dolabella. As duumvir navalis he and his cold with great exertions. In B. C. 51, he was ap-
jeague, C. Furius, had to protect the eastern pointed a member of the college of the quindea
coast of Italy with a fleet of twenty sail against imviri, and the year following he accused Appius
the Illyrians. (Liv. xl. 42 ; xli. 5. )
Claudius of having violated the sovereign rights of
4. Cx. CORNELIUS DOLABELLÁ, was curule the people. While this trial was going on, Fabia,
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DOLABELLA.
Caesar pro-
the wife of Dolabella, left her husband. She | sar returned to Rome. Caesar of course greatly
had been compelled to take this step by the con- disapproved of Dolabella's conduct, but he did not
duct of her busband, who hoped by a marriage think it prudent to bring him to account, or to
with Tullia, the daughter of Cicero, to prevent punish him for it. However, he got him away
Cicero from assisting App. Claudius in his trial from Rome by taking him with him to Africa
by favourable testimonies from Cilicia. Cicero about the close of the year, and afterwards also in
himself, on the other hand, was anxious to oblige his Spanish campaign against the two sons of
App. Claudius, and was therefore by no means in. Pompey. In the course of the latter of these
clined to give his own daughter in marriage to expeditions Dolabella was wounded.
the accuser of Claudius ; he had, besides, been mised him the consulship for the year B. c. 44,
contemplating to bring about a marriage between although Dolabella was then only twenty-five years
Tullia and Tib. Claudius Nero, But Cicero's old, and had not yet held the praetorship; but
wife was gained over by Dolabella, and, before Caesar afterwards altered his mind, and entered
Cicero could interfere, the engagement was made, himself upon the consulship for that year ; however,
and the marriage soon followed. Cicero seems to as he had resolved upon his campaign against the
have been grieved by the affair, for he knew the Parthians, he promised Dolabella the consulship, in
vicious character of his son-in-law ; but Cloelius his absence, on the 1st of January, B. C. 44.
189, and obtained the southern part of Spain for Dius, who wrote a work nepi karlovñs, of which
his province. On his way thither he was sur- two fragments are preserved in Stobaeus. (Tit.
rounded by Ligurians, who cut to pieces a great lxv. 16, 17. )
[L. S. ]
part of his forces: he himself was wounded, and DIYLLUS (Abulos), an Athenian, who wrote
escaped to Massilia, where however he died on the a history of Greece and Sicily in 26 or 27 books.
third day after. (Liv. xxxvii. 47, 50, 57. ) [L. S. ] It was divided apparently into several parts, the
DIVES, L. CANULEIUS, was appointed first of which extended from the seizure of the
praetor in B. c. 171, and obtained Spain for his Delphic temple by Philomelus (where the history
province. But before he went to his post, several of Callisthenes ended) to the siege of Perinthus, by
Spanish tribes sent embassies to Rome to complain Philip (B. C. 357—340), and the second from B. C.
of the ararice and insolence of their Roman go- 340 to 336, the date of Philip's death. The work
Hereupon L. Canuleius Dives was com- was carried on, according to Diodorus, down to B. C.
missioned to appoint five recuperatores of senato- | 298, from which period Psaon, of Platae, continued
rian rank to inquire into each particular case of it. If we accede to Casaubon's substitution of
extortion, and to allow the accused to choose their alvilos for Aiduuos, in Diog. Laërt. v. 76, we
own pleaders. In consequence of the investiga- must reckon also a work on drinking-parties
tions which were thus commenced, two men who (ovutodiaká) among the writings of Diyllus. The
had been praetors in Spain withdrew into exact period at which he flourished cannot be ascer
voluntary exile. The pleaders, probably bribed tained, but he belongs to the age of the Ptolemies.
by the guilty, contrived to suppress the whole (Diod. xvi. 14, 76, xxi. , Fragm. 5, p. 490 ; Plut.
inquiry, as men of rank and influence were in- de llerod. Mal. 26 ; Ath. iv. p. 155, a, xiii. p. 593,
volved in it. L. Canuleius likewise is not free f ; Maussac. ad Harpocrat. s. v. 'Apotiwv; Wesse-
from the suspicion of having assisted the pleaders, ling, ad Diod. xvi. 14; Clinton, F. H. vol. ii. sub
for he joined them in dropping the matter, and ann. 357, 339, 298, p. 377. )
(E. E. )
forth with assembled his troops, and proceeded to his DIYLLUS (Awniós), a Corinthian statuary,
province. After his arrival in Spain, another in- who, in conjunction with Amyclaeus, executed the
teresting embassy was sent to Rome. Roman armies greater part of the bronze group which the Pho-
had for many years been stationed in Spain, and cians dedicated at Delphi. (Paus. x. 13. 4;
numbers of the soldiers had married Spanish women. AMYCLAEUS ; Chionis. )
[P. S. ]
At the time when Canuleius was in Spain, the DO'CIMUS (Aókiuos), one of the officers in
number of persons who had sprung from such mar- the Macedonian army, who after the death of
riages is said to have amounted to upwards of 4000, Alexander supported the party of Perdiccas. After
and they now petitioned the senate to assign to the death of Perdiccas he united with Attalus and
them a town, where they might settle. The senate Alcetas, and was taken prisoner together with the
decreed that they should give in their names to former when their combined forces were defeated
Canuleius, and that, if he would manumit them, by Antigonus in Pisidia, B. C. 320. (Diod.
they were to settle as colonists at Carteia, where xviii. 45, Polyaen. iv. 6. § 7. ) The captives were
they were to form a colonia libertinorum. (Liv. confined in a strong fort, but, during the expedi-
xlii. 28, 31, xliii. 2, 3. )
[L. S. ] tion of Antigonus against Eumenes, they con-
DI'VICO, a commander of the Helvetians in trived to overpower their guards, and make them-
the war against L. Cassius, in B. c. 107. Nearly selves masters of the fortress. Docimus, however,
fifty years later, B. C. 58, when J. Caesar was pre- having quitted the castle to carry on a negotiation
paring to attack the Helvetians, they sent an em- with Stratonice, the wife of Antigonus, was again
bassy to him, headed by the aged Divico, whose made prisoner. (Diod. xix. 16. ) He appears
courageous speech is recorded by Caesar. (B. G. i. after this to have entered the service of Antigonus,
13; comp. Oros. v. 15; Liv. Epit. 65. ) [L. S. ) as we find him in 313 B. C. sent by that prince
DIVITI'ACUS, an Aeduan noble, and brother with an army to establish the freedom of the
of Dumnorix, is mentioned by Cicero ( de Dir. i. 11) | Greek cities in Caria. (Diod. xix. 75 ; Droysen,
as belonging to the order of Druids, and professing Hellenismus, vol. i. p. 358. ). In the campaign pre-
much knowledge of the secrets of nature and of divi- ceding the battle of Ipsus, he held the strong for-
nation. He was a warm adherent of the Romans tress of Synnada in Phrygia in charge for Anti-
and of Caesar, who, in consideration of his earnest gonus, but was induced to surrender it into the
entreaties, pardoned the treason of Dumnorix in hands of Lysimachus. (Diod. xx. 107; Pau-
B. C. 58. In the same year he took the most pro- san. i. 8. 1. ) It is probable that he had been
minent part among the Gallic chiefs in requesting governor of the adjoining district for some time :
Caesar's aid against Ariovistus ( see p. 287); he had, and he had founded there the city called after him
some time before, gone even to Rome to ask the Docimeium. (Steph. Byz, s. 1'. Aokiuerov, Droy-
senate for their interference, but without success. sen, Hellenismus, vol. ii. p. 665; Eckhel, iii. p.
It was probably during this visit that he was the 151. ) His name is not mentioned after the fall
guest of Cicero (de Div. l. c. ). Throughout, Caesar of Antigonis.
[E. H. B. )
3 x
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1058
DOLABELLA.
DOLABELLA.
DO'CIMUS or DOCI'MIUS. To a supposed aedile in B. c. 165, in which year he and his col.
Graeco-Roman jurist of this name has been some- league, Sex. Julius Caesar, had the Hecyra of Te-
times attributed the authorship of a legal work in rence performed at the festival of the Megalesia.
alphabetical order, called by Harmenopulus ($ 49) In B. c. 159 he was consul with M. Fulvius No
To uerpov katà Otoixeiov, and usually known by bilior. (Title of Terent. Hecyr. ; Suet. Vit. Te-
the name of Synopsis Minor. It is principally bor- rent. 5. )
rowed from a work of Michael Attaliata. A fragment 5. Cn. CORNELIUS DOLABELLA, a grandson of
of the work relating to the authority of the Leges No. 4, and a son of the Cn. Cornelius Dolabella
Rhodiae, was published by S. Schardius (Basel who was put to death in B. c. 100, together with
1561), at the end of the Naval Laws, and the the tribune Appuleius Saturninus. During the
same fragment appears in the collection of Leun- civil war between Marius and Sulla, Dolabella
clavius (J. G. R. ii. p. 472). Pardessus has pub- sided with the latter, and in B. C. 81, when Sulla
Jished some further fragments of the Synopsis was dictator, Dolabella was raised to the consul-
Minor (Collection de Lois Maritimes, i. pp.
164, ship, and afterwards received Macedonia for his
195—204), and Zachariae has given some ex- province. He there carried on a successful war
tracts from it (Ilist. Jur. G. R. p. 76); but the against the Thracians, for which he was rewarded
greater part of the work is still in manuscript. on his return with a triumph. In B. c. 77, how-
Bach conjectures that the compilation of the Rho- ever, young Julius Caesar charged him with having
dian laws themselves was made by Docimus been guilty of extortion in his province, but he
(Hist. Jur. Rom. lib. iv. c. 1, sect. 3. § 26, p. was acquitted. (Oros. v. 17; Plut. Sulla, 28,
630); but Zachariae is of opinion, that the only &c. ; Appian, B. C. i. 100; Suet. Caes. 4, 49,
reason for attributing to him the authorship of the 55; Vell. Pat. ii. 43; Aurel. Vict. de Vir.
Synopsis Minor was, that the manuscript of II. 78 ; Val. Max. viii. 9. § 3; Cic. in
Vienna, from which the fragment in Schardius Pison. 19, Brut. 92, de Leg. Agr. ii. 14 ; Tacit.
and Leunclavius was published, once belonged to de Orat. 34 ; Gellius, xv. 28 ; Ascon. in Scaur.
a person named Docimus.
[J. T. G. ] p. 29, in Cornel. p. 73, ed. Orelli. )
DODON (Awwwv), a son of Zeus by Europa, 6. CN. CORNELIUS DOLABELLA, was praetor
from whom the oracle of Dodona was believed to urbanus, in B. C. 81, when the cause of P. Quin-
have derived its name. (Steph. Byz. s. r. Awowvn. ) tius was tried. Cicero charges him with having
Other traditions traced the name to a nymph of the acted on that occasion unjustly and against all
name of Dodone.
(L. S. ) established usages. The year after he had Cilicia
DOLABELLA, sometimes written Dolobella, for his province, and C. Malleolus was his quaes-
the name of a family of the patrician Cornelia tor, and the notorious Verres his legate. Dola-
gens. (Ruhnken, ad Vell. Pat. ii. 43. )
bella not only tolerated the extortions and rob-
1. P. CORNELIUS DOLABELLA MAXIMUS, was beries committed by them, but shared in their
consul in B. C. 283 with Cn. Domitius Calvinus, booty. He was especially indulgent towards
and in that year conquered the Senones, who had Verres, and, after Malleolus was murdered, he
defeated the praetor L. Caecilius, and murdered made Verres his proquaestor. After his return to
the Roman ambassadors. Owing to the loss of Rome, Dolabella was accused by M. Aemilius
the consular Fasti for that time we do not hear of Scaurus of extortion in his province, and on that
his triumph, though he undoubtedly celebrated his occasion Verres not only deserted his accomplice,
victory by a triumph. In B. c. 279 he, together but furnished the accuser with all the necessary
with c. Fabricius and Q. Aemilius, went to information, and even spoke himself publicly
Pyrrhus as ambassadors to effect an exchange of against Dolabella. Many of the crimes com-
prisoners. (Eutrop. ii. 6; Florus, i. 13; Appian, mitted by Verres himself were thus put to the
Samnit
. 6, Gall. 11; Dionys. Excerpt, p. 2344, account of Dolabella, who was therefore con-
ed. Reiske, and p. 75, ed. Frankfurt. )
demned. He went into exile, and left his wife
2. CN. CORNELIUS DOLABELLA, was inaugi and children behind him in great poverty. (Cic.
rated in B. C. 208 as rex sacrorum in the place of pro Quint. 2, 8; in Verr. i. 4, 15, 17, 29; Ascon,
M. Marcius, and he held this office until his death in Cornel. p. 110, ed. Orelli, who however con-
in B. c. 180. (Liv. xxvii. 36, xl. 42. )
founds him with No. 5. )
3. L. CORNELIUS DOLABELLA, was duumvir 7. P. CORNELIUS DOLABELLA, was praetor ur-
navalis in B. C. 180. In that year his kinsman, banus in B. C. 67 ; if, as is usually supposed, this
Cn. Cornelius Dolabella, the rex sacrorum, died, be the year in which Cicero spoke for Aulus Cae-
and our Dolabella wanted to become his successor. cina. (Cic. pro Caec. 8. ) He seems to be the
But C. Servilius, the pontifex maximus, before in- same person as the Dolabella who is mentioned
augurating him, demanded of him to resign his by Valerius Maximus, (viii. 1, Ambustae, $ 2,) as
office of duumvir navalis. When Dolabella re- governor of Asia, with the title of proconsul.
fused to obey this command, the pontifex inflicted (Comp. Gell. xii. 7, where he bears the prae-
a fine upon him. Dolabella appealed against it to nomen Cneius ; Amm. Marc. xxix. 2. )
the people. Several tribes had already given their 8. P. Cornelius DOLABELLA, perhaps a son
vote that Dolabella ought to obey, and that he of No. 7, was one of the most profligate men of
should be released from the fine if he would resign his time. He was born about B. c. 70, and is
the office of duumvir navalis, when some sign in said to have been guilty, even in early youth, of
the heavens broke up the assembly. This was a some capital offences, which might have cost him
fresh reason for the pontiff's refusing to inaugurate his life, had not Cicero defended and saved him
Dolabella. As duumvir navalis he and his cold with great exertions. In B. C. 51, he was ap-
jeague, C. Furius, had to protect the eastern pointed a member of the college of the quindea
coast of Italy with a fleet of twenty sail against imviri, and the year following he accused Appius
the Illyrians. (Liv. xl. 42 ; xli. 5. )
Claudius of having violated the sovereign rights of
4. Cx. CORNELIUS DOLABELLÁ, was curule the people. While this trial was going on, Fabia,
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Caesar pro-
the wife of Dolabella, left her husband. She | sar returned to Rome. Caesar of course greatly
had been compelled to take this step by the con- disapproved of Dolabella's conduct, but he did not
duct of her busband, who hoped by a marriage think it prudent to bring him to account, or to
with Tullia, the daughter of Cicero, to prevent punish him for it. However, he got him away
Cicero from assisting App. Claudius in his trial from Rome by taking him with him to Africa
by favourable testimonies from Cilicia. Cicero about the close of the year, and afterwards also in
himself, on the other hand, was anxious to oblige his Spanish campaign against the two sons of
App. Claudius, and was therefore by no means in. Pompey. In the course of the latter of these
clined to give his own daughter in marriage to expeditions Dolabella was wounded.
the accuser of Claudius ; he had, besides, been mised him the consulship for the year B. c. 44,
contemplating to bring about a marriage between although Dolabella was then only twenty-five years
Tullia and Tib. Claudius Nero, But Cicero's old, and had not yet held the praetorship; but
wife was gained over by Dolabella, and, before Caesar afterwards altered his mind, and entered
Cicero could interfere, the engagement was made, himself upon the consulship for that year ; however,
and the marriage soon followed. Cicero seems to as he had resolved upon his campaign against the
have been grieved by the affair, for he knew the Parthians, he promised Dolabella the consulship, in
vicious character of his son-in-law ; but Cloelius his absence, on the 1st of January, B. C. 44.