DOL'ABEL'LA, l'utit.t us (e.70• 4:3 me.). A Roman of patrician family, and of profligate character. Though ilkolved in crimi nal charges. he was defended and protected by Cicero: and in 13.C. 49 he put away his wife Fabia that he might sue for the hand of Cieero's daugh tc-r Tullia. whom he married, notwithstanding the orator's opposition. To judge from Ciecro's letters, he seems to have had lame: of the young man's reform; but the reeklessne:s of Dolabolla plunged him always deeper into debt. until in a short time. driven from Rome by the demands of his creditors. he took refuge in Ca-sar's camp, and wits assigned to the command of a fleet. lie took part, but without distinction, in the battle of l'harsalia, and then returned to Rome, hoping to be enriched from the spoils of C:csa•'s vic tories, but in this he was disappointed. Accor dingly he had himself adopted into a plebeian family and secure(' the tribuneship. when lie
audaciously proposed a bill that :ill debts should be legally canceled. and this led to long and bloody contests. Caesar got him away from and gave him appointments in his African and Spanish eampaigns. On the death of the 1)icta tor, rf.c. 41. Dolahella arbitrarily seized the con sular insignia and allied himself with III the con spirators. Ile was, however, soon W011 over by _kntoitins, who gave him the appointment to gov ern the province of Syria. On his way to the East he proved violent and extortionate, and at Smyrna lie eaused the death of the proconsul, C. Trelainins, who had withstood his sehemings. At length Cassius advaneed against him and be. siege.] him in Laodicea, where, to avoid rapture, he ordered a soldier to kill him (ate. 43),