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Publius Cornelius Dolabella, Roman general and son-in-law of Cicero, was born about 70 BC. He was by far the most important of the Dolabellae, a family of the patrician Cornelii.In the civil wars he at first took the side of Pompey, but afterwards went over to Caesar, and was present at the battle of Pharsalus.
To escape the urgent demands of his creditors, he 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 Marcus Junius Brutus and the other assassins, was confirmed in his office. When, however, Marcus Antonius offered him the command of the expedition against the ParthiansTrajan's Column The Parthian Empire was the dominating force on the Iranian plateau beginning in the late 3rd century BCE, and intermittently controlled Mesopotamia between ca 190 BCE and 224 CE. Origins The Parthians were an illiterate nomadic people, th and the province of SyriaThe Syrian Arab Republic is a country in Southwest Asia, bordering (from south to north) on Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, Iraq and Turkey. The border with Israel is subject to dispute, pending the resolution of outstanding conflicts over possession of the Gola, he changed sides at once. His journey to the province was marked by plundering, extortion, and the murder of Gaius Trebonius , proconsul of Asia, who refused to allow him to enter SmyrnaIzmir ( Turkish spelling Izmir contraction of its former name Smyrna in Greek), the second-largest port (after Istanbul) and the third most populous city of Turkey is located on the Aegean Sea near the Gulf of Izmir. It is the capital of the Izmir Provinc.
He was thereupon declared a public enemy and superseded by CassiusFor other Romans named "Cassius", see Cassia (gens). Gaius Cassius Longinus was the prime mover in the conspiracy against Julius Caesar. Little is known of his early life. In 53 BC he served in the Parthian campaign under M. Licinius Crassus, saved the re (the murderer of Caesar), who attacked him in LaodiceaLatakia ( Arabic: Al-Ladhiqiyah) is the principal port city of Syria. Population in 1994: 554,000. The site, on the Ras Ziyarah peninsula, has been occupied for a long time. The Phoenicians had a city here named Ramitha, and to the Greeks it was Leuke Akt. When Cassius's troops captured the place ( 43 BCCenturies: 2nd century BC 1st century BC 1st century Decades: 90s BC 80s BC 70s BC 60s BC 50s BC 40s BC 30s BC 20s BC 10s BC 0s BC 0s Years: 48 BC 47 BC 46 BC 45 BC 44 BC 43 BC 42 BC 41 BC 40 BC 39 BC 38 BC Events April 14 Battle of Forum Gallorum: Mark A), Dolabella ordered one of his soldiers to kill him. Throughout his life he was a profligate and a spendthrift.
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Dolabella, Publius Cornelius
