Publius Cornelius Dolabella

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Publius Cornelius Dolabella

Publius Cornelius Dolabella, 70 BC- 43 BC, was a Roman

Roman Republic

The Roman Republic was the phase of the Ancient Rome characterized by a republican form of government; a period which began with the overthrow of the Roman Roman Kingdom, c....
general, by far the most important of the Dolabella

Dolabella

Dolabella was a family of the Cornelius gens in ancient Rome:*Publius Cornelius Dolabella , consul in 283 BC*Gnaeus Cornelius Dolabella, consul in 159 BC...
e, a plebian family within the patrician

Patrician

The term "patrician" originally referred to a group of elitism citizens in ancient Rome, including both their natural and adopted members. In the late Roman empire, the class was broadened to include high council officials, and after the fall of the Western Empire became a term for Byzantine Imperial governors in the West....
gens
Gens

In ancient Rome, a gens was a clan, caste, or group of families, that shared a common name and a belief in a common ancestor. In the Roman naming convention, the second name was the name of the gens to which the person belonged....
Cornelia. He married Cicero

Cicero

Marcus Tullius Cicero was a Ancient Rome philosopher, statesman, lawyer, political theorist, and Constitution of the Roman Republic. Cicero is widely considered one of Rome's greatest rhetoric and prose stylists....
's daughter Tullia Ciceronis

Tullia Ciceronis

Tullia Ciceronis, also Tulliola was the only daughter and first child to Ancient Rome orator and politician Marcus Tullius Cicero from his first marriage to Terentia....
.

In the civil wars he at first took the side of Pompey

Pompey

Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, commonly known as Pompey /'p?mpi/, Pompey the Great or Pompey the Triumvir , was a distinguished military and political leader of the late Roman Republic....
, but afterwards went over to Julius Caesar

Julius Caesar

'Gaius Julius Caesar' , July 13, 100 BC ? March 15, 44 BC,) was a Roman Republic military and political leader. He played a critical role in the transformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire....
, and was present at the Battle of Pharsalus

Battle of Pharsalus

The Battle of Pharsalus was a decisive battle of Caesar's civil war. On August 9, 48 BC, the battle was fought at Pharsalus in central Greece between forces of the Populares faction and forces of the Optimates faction....
.

As a Tribune

Tribune

Tribune was a title shared by 10 elected officials in the Roman Republic. Tribunes had the power to convene the Plebeian Council and to act as its president, which also gave them the exclusive right to propose legislation before it....
for 47 BC, Dolabella tried to bring about constitutional changes, one of which (to escape the urgent demands of his creditors) was a bill proposing that all debts should be canceled.

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Publius Cornelius Dolabella, 70 BC- 43 BC, was a Roman

Roman Republic

Dolabella

Patrician

Cicero

Tullia Ciceronis

Pompey

Julius Caesar

Battle of Pharsalus

Tribune

Mark Antony

Marcus Antonius , known in English as Marc Antony, was a Roman Republic politician and General. He was an important supporter and the best friend of Julius Caesar as a military commander and administrator, being Caesar's second cousin, once removed, by his mother Julia Antonia....
, but his fellow tribunes Gaius Asinius Pollio

Gaius Asinius Pollio (consul 40 BC)

Gaius Asinius Pollio was a Roman Republic soldier, politician, orator, poet, playwright, literary critic and historian, whose lost contemporary history, provided much of the material for the historians Appian and Plutarch....
and Lucius Trebellius Fides advised Antony not to support the measure. Antony, who also suspected he had been cuckolded by Dolabella, took up arms against him when Dolabella occupied the Forum

Roman Forum

The Roman Forum , sometimes known by its original Latin name, is located between the Palatine hill and the Capitoline hill of the city of Rome. It is the central area around which the Ancient Rome developed....
in an attempt to use force to pass the bill. The Senate

Roman Senate

The Senate of the Roman Republic was a political institution in the ancient Roman Republic. According to the Greek historian Polybius, our principal source on the Constitution of the Roman Republic, the Roman Senate was the predominant branch of government....
voted to support this, and a clash ensued in which both sides took losses. Caesar, on his return from Alexandria

Alexandria

Alexandria , with a population of 4.1 million, is the second-largest city in Egypt, and is the country's largest seaport, serving about 80% of Egypt's imports and exports....
, seeing the expediency of removing Dolabella from Rome

Rome

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, pardoned him and took him as one of his generals in the expedition to Africa

North Africa during the Classical Period

Carthage and the BerbersPhoenician traders arrived on the North African coast around 900 BC and established Carthage around 800 BC. By the sixth century BC, a Phoenician presence existed at Tipasa ....
and Spain

Hispania

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.

After Caesar had returned to Rome and been elected consul

Roman consul

Consul was the highest elected political office of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire.During the time of ancient Rome as a Republic, the Consuls were the highest civil and military magistrates, serving as the head of government for the Republic....
for the fifth time, he proposed to the Senate that his consulship be transferred to Dolabella. Antony protested, causing a huge disruption that made Caesar withdraw the motion out of shame. Later, Cesar exercised his role as dictator and directly proclaimed Dolabella consul. This time Antony called out that the omens were unfavorable and Caesar again backed down and abandoned Dolabella.

On Caesar's death, Dolabella seized the insignia of the consulship

Consul

Consul was the highest elected office of the Roman Republic and an appointive office under the Roman Empire. The title was also used in other city states, and revived in modern states, notably French Republic before the Napoleon I of Franceic counter-revolution....
(which had already been conditionally promised him), and, by making friends with Marcus Junius Brutus

Marcus Junius Brutus

File:Portrait Brutus Massimo.jpgMarcus Junius Brutus or Quintus Servilius Caepio Brutus, often referred to simply as Brutus, was a Roman Senate of the late Roman Republic....
and the other assassins, was confirmed in his office. When, however, Mark Antony

Mark Antony

Parthia

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and the province of Syria

History of Syria

This article deals with the history of Syria, and the nations previously occupying its territory....
, he changed sides at once. His journey to the province was marked by plundering, extortion, and the murder of Gaius Trebonius, proconsul

Proconsul

Ancient RomeIn the Roman Republic, a proconsul was a promagistrate who, after serving as consul, spent a year as a Roman governor of a Roman province....
of Asia, who refused to allow him to enter Smyrna

Smyrna

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.

He was thereupon declared a public enemy and superseded by Cassius

Gaius Cassius Longinus

For other individuals with a similar name, see Cassius Longinus.Gaius Cassius Longinus was a Roman Republic Roman Senate, the prime mover in the conspiracy against Julius Caesar, and the brother in-law of Marcus Junius Brutus....
(the murderer of Caesar), who attacked him in Laodicea

Latakia

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. When Cassius's troops captured the place (43 BC), Dolabella ordered one of his soldiers to kill him. Throughout his life he was an extreme profligate.