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Dolabella

PUBLIUS CORNE- LIUS (dol-ä-bel'lä), the son-in-law of Cicero, who took sides with Julius Cæsar in the civil served under him at Pharsalia, Thapsus, and Munda, and was made by him consul and governor of Syria. He was deprived of his government by Cassius, and revenged himself by putting to death Trebonius, governor of Asia Minor, and one of the assassins of the dictator. Declared an enemy of the republic for this act, he took refuge in Laodicea, where he was besieged by Cassius and compelled to commit suicide, 43 B. C.

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