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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
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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. Antony,
endeavoured to console him by saying, that the who was then augur, threatened to prevent such
vices of Dolabella were mere youthful ebullitions, an appointment, and when the comitia were held,
the time of which was now gone by, and that if he carried his threat into effect. On the 15th of
there remained any traces of them, they would March the senate was to have decided upon the
soon be corrected by Cicero's influence, and the opposition of Antony; but the murder of Caesar
virtuous conduct of Tullia. App. Claudius was on that day changed the aspect of everything.
acquitted in the mean time, and as thus the great Dolabella inmediately took possession of the con-
outward obstacle was removed, Cicero tried to sular fasces, and not only approved of the murder,
make the best of what he had been unable to but joined the assassins, and thus obtained the
prevent. In his letters written about that time, office of which he had already usurped the insignia.
and afterwards, Cicero speaks of Dolabella with In order to make a still greater display of his ha-
admiration and affection, and he may have really tred of Caesar, he caused the altar which had been
hoped that his son-in-law would improve ; but the erected to his honour and the column in the forum
consequences of his former recklessness and licen- to be pulled down ; and many persons who went
tiousness, even if he had wished to mend, drove thither with the intention of offering sacrifices to
him to new acts of the same kind. The great Caesar, and of paying him divine honours, were
amount of debts which he had contracted, and the thrown from the Tarpeian rock, or nailed on the
urgent demands of his creditors, compelled him in cross. These apparent republican sentiments and
B. C. 49 to seek refuge in the camp of Caesar. actions gave great delight to Cicero and the re-
This was a severe blow to Cicero, who speaks of publican party ; but no sooner did Antony open the
the step with great sorrow. When Caesar marched treasury to Dolabella, and give him Syria for his pro-
into Spain against Pompey's legates, Dolabella vince, with the command against the Parthians,
had the command of Caesar's fleet in the Adriatic, than all his republican enthusiasm disappeared at
but was unable to effect anything of consequence. once. As Cassius had likewise a claim to the pro-
After the battle of Pharsalus, in which he had vince of Syria, Dolabella left Rome before the year
taken a part, Dolabella returned to Rome. He of his consulship had come to its close. But he did
had hoped that Caesar would liberally reward his not proceed straightway to Syria; for, being great-
services, or that proscriptions, like those of Sulla, ly in want of money, he marched through Greece,
would afford him the means of obtaining money; Macedonia, Thrace, and Asia Minor, collecting
but in vain. His creditors were as loud and and extorting as much as he could on his way.
troublesome in their demands as before, and he at C. Trebonius, one of Caesar's murderers, who had
last had recourse to a new expedient. He caused then arrived at Smyrna as proconsul of Asia, did
himself to be adopted into the plebeian family of not admit Dolabella into the city, but sent him
Cn. Lentulus—whence he is afterwards sometimes provisions outside the place. Dolabella pretended
called Lentulus-in order to be able to obtain the to go to Ephesus, and Trebonius gave him an es.
tribuneship.
He was accordingly made tribune in cort to conduct him thither; but when the escort
B. C. 48 ; and, in spite of the decree of the senate, returned to Smyrna, Dolabella too went back, and
that everything at Rome should remain unchanged entered Smyrna by night. Trebonius was mur-
till Caesar's return from Alexandria, Dolabella came dered in his bed, in February, B. C. 43; or, accord-
forward with a rogation, that all debts should be can- ing to Cicero, he was tortured for two days before
celled, and with some other measures of a similar he was put to death. Dolabella now began extort
character. His colleagues, Asinius and L. Trebel- ing money and troops from the towns of Asia
lius, opposed the scheme, and rehement and bloody Minor with a recklessness which knew no scruples
struggles ensued between the two parties which whatever in regard to the means for securing his end.
were thus formed at Rome. Antony, who had been When his proceedings became known at Rome, he
left behind by Caesar as his vicegerent, and bore was outlawed and declared a public enemy. Cas-
no hostility towards Dolabella, did not take any sius, who had in the mean time arrived in Asia,
strong measures against him till he was informed made war upon him, and took Laodiceia, which
of an amour existing between his wife Antonia Dolabella had occupied. The latter, in order not
and Dolabella. The day on which Dolabella's to fall into the bands of his enemies, ordered one
rogations were to be put to the vote, a fresh tu- of his soldiers to kill him, B. C. 43.
mult broke out in the city, in which the party of It is extraordinary to see the forbearance with
Dolabella was defeated; but peace was neverthe which Cicero treated Dolabella, who, after his
less not quite restored till the autumn, when ('ae- marriage with Tullin, B. C. 49, improved so little
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DOLIUS.
DOMITIA.
in his conduct, that two years after, Tullia left on the return of Odysseus from his wanderings,
him when she was expecting to become mother of a Dolius and his six sons welcomed him, and was
second child by him. Cicero, who certainly loved ready to join his master against the relatives of
his daughter most tenderly, and was aware of the the suitors. (Ilom. Od. iv. 735 ; xxiv. 495. ) (L. S. ]
unworthy and contemptible conduct of Dolabella, DOLON (A6Xwv), the name of two mythical
yet kept up his connexion with him after the di personages, both Trojans. (Hom. Il. x. 314, &c. ;
vorce, and repeatedly assures him of his great Hygin. Fab. 90. )
[L. S. )
attachment. It is difficult to account for this DOLOPS (A6204), a son of Hermes, who had
mode of acting on the part of Cicero, unless we a sepulchral monument in the neighbourhood of
suppose that his desire to keep upon good terms Peiresiae and Magnetn, which was visible at a
with a man who possessed influence with Caesar great distance, and at which the Argonauts landed
outweighed all other considerations. Cicero's fond- and offered up sacrifices. (Apollon. Rhod. i. 584 ;
ness for him continued for a short time after Cae. Orph. Arg. 459. ) There are two other mythical
sar's murder, that is, so long as Dolabella played personages of this name. (Hom. I. xv. 525, &c. ;
the part of a republican; but a change took place Hygin. Fab. Praef. p. 2. )
[L. S. ]
in Cicero's feelings as soon as Dolabella allied him- DOMATI'TES (Aquations), that is, the do-
self with Antony, and at the time when his crimes mestic, a surname of Poseidon, at Sparta, which is,
in Asia became known, Cicero spoke of him with perhaps, synonymous with frixápios. (Paus. iii.
the utmost bitterness and contempt. (See the nu- 14. $ 7. )
[L. S. ]
merous passages of Cicero relating to Dolabella in DOMDU'CA and DOMIDU'CUS, Roman
Orelli, Onom. ii. p. 175, &c. ; comp. Fabric. l'it. Cic. sumames of Jupiter and Juno, who, as the gods of
p. 91, with Orelli's note: Dion Cass. xli. 40, xlii. marriage, were believed to conduct the bride into
29, &c. , xliii. 51, xliv. 22, 5), xlv. 15, xlvii. 29; the house of the bridegroom. (August. de Civ. Dei,
Suet. Caes. 36, 85; Appian, B. C. ii. 41, 122, 129, vii. 3, ix. 6. )
(L. S. )
ii. 3, 7, dic. , 24, 26; Liv. Epit. 113, 119; Vell. DOMI'TIA, a sister of Cn. Domitius Aheno-
Pat. ii. 58, 60, 69; Plut. Anton. 9, 10, 11 ; Caes. barbus (AHENOBARBUS, No. 10), and conse-
Bell. Alex. 65; Oros. vi. 18. )
quently an aunt of the emperor Nero. She was
9. P. Cornelius DOLABELLA, a son of No. 8 the wife of Crispus Passienus, who afterwards de-
by his first wife, Fabia. In B. C. 30 he was with serted her and married Agrippina, the mother of
Octavianus at Alexandria, and feeling himself at- Nero. It is natural, therefore, that Tacitus should
tracted by the charms of Cleopatra, he betrayed to call her an enemy of Agrippina. After the murder
her that it was her conqueror's intention to carry of his mother, Nero ordered Domitia, who was
her to Italy. In d. d. 10, he was consul with Č. already of an advanced age, to be poisoned, in order
Junius Silanns. On coins he is designated as that he might get possession of the property,
triumvir monetalis. (Plut. Anton. 84 ; Fast. Cap. ; which she possessed at Baiae, and in the neigh-
Vaillant, Cornel. 65. )
bourhood of Ravenna, on which estates he built
10. P. CORNELIUS DOLABELLA, a son of No. 9, magnificent gymnasia. (Tac. Ann. xiii. 19, 21;
was proconsul of Africa in the reign of Tiberius, Suet. Ner. 34; Dion Cass. lxi. 17 ; Quintil. vi.
A. D. 23 and 24. In the course of the administra- 1. $ 50, 3. & 74, x. 1. $ 24. )
[L. S. ]
tion of his province he gained a complete victory DOMITIA LE'PIDA, a sister of Cn. Domi-
over the Numidian Tacfarinas ; but although he tius Ahenobarbus [AHENOBARBUS, No. 10), and
had formerly been a very great flatterer of Ti- of Domitia, and, consequently, like her an aunt of
berius, yet he did not obtain the ornaments of a the emperor Nero. She was married to M. Va-
triumph, in order that his predecessor in the pro- lerius Messalla Barbatus, by whom she became the
vince of Africa, Junius Blaesius, an uncle of Sej- mother of Messallina, the wife of the emperor
anus, might not be thrown into the shade. In Claudius. There existed a rivalry of female vanity
A. D. 27 he joined Domitius Afer in the accusation between her and Agrippina, the mother of Nero.
against his own relative, Quintilius Varus. (Tac. Both women were equally bad and vicious in their
Ann. iii. 47, 68, iv. 23, &c. 66. )
conduct ; Agrippina however succeeded, in A. D.
11. CORNELIUS DOLABELLA, was sent in A. D. 55, in inducing her son to sentence his aunt to
70 by the emperor Otho into the colony of Aqui- death. (Tac. Ann. xi. 37, &c. , xii. 64, &c. ;
num, to be kept there in a sort of libera custo- Suet. Cland. 26, Nero, 7. )
(L. S. ]
dia, for no other reason, but because he belonged DOMI'TIA LONGI'NA, a daughter of Domi-
to an ancient family, and was related to Galba. tius Corbulo, was married to L. Lamia Aemi-
After the death of Otho he came back to Rome, lianus, from whom she was carried away by Domi-
but one of his most intimate friends, Plancius tian about the time of Vespasian's accession. Im-
Varus, denounced him to the praefect of the city, mediately after Vespasian's return from the east,
who being a man of a mild but weak tempera- Domitian lived with her and his other mistresses
ment, was inclined to pardon him, until Triaria, on an estate near the Mons Albanus. Subse-
the wife of Vitellius, prevailed upon him not to sa- quently, however, he married her, and in a. d. 73
crifice the safety of the princeps to his feeling of she bore him a son.