Do labella Publius Cornel i us

, a Roman who married the daughter of Cicero. During the civil wars he warmly espoused the interest of Julius Cæsar, whom he accompanied at the famous battles at Pharsalia, Africa, and Munda. He was made consul by his patron, though Marcus Antony his colleague opposed it. After the death of Julius Cæsar, he received the government of Syria as his province. Ca ius opposed his views, and Do labella, for violence, and for the a a ination of Trebonius, one of Cæsar’s murderers, was declared an enemy to the republic of Rome. He was besieged by Ca ius in Laodicea, and when he saw that all was lost, he killed himself, in the 27th year of his age. He was of small stature, which gave occasion to his father-in-law to ask him once when he entered his house, who had tied him so cleverly to his sword.――A proconsul of Africa.――Another, who conquered the Gauls, Etrurians, and Boii at the lake of Vadimonis, B.C. 283.――The family of the Dolabellæ distinguished themselves at Rome, and one of them, Lucius Cornel i us, conquered Lusitania, B.C. 99.