biography
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Dolabella, Publius Cornelius
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pronunciation:
[dolabela]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (c.70–43 BC)
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| biography:
| Roman politician and Cicero's profligate son-in-law. Having obtained the tribuneship (47 BC), he brought forward a bill cancelling all debts, which led to bloody struggles in Rome. On Caesar's murder (44 BC) he usurped the consulate, and obtained the province of Syria. He proceeded to wring money from the towns of Asia with a recklessness that brought about his outlawry. Laodicea, in which he had shut himself up, was taken by Cassius, and Dolabella commanded one of his own soldiers to kill him. |
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