A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. By various writers. Ed. by William Smith. Illustrated by numerous engravings on wood.

1058 DOLABELLA.
DO'CIMUS or DOCI'MIUS. To a supposed
Graeco-Roman jurist of this name has been sometimes attributed the authorship of a legal work in
alphabetical order, called by Harmenopulus (~ 49)
Tdo iuIcpdv cara orotoLXiov, and usually known by
the name of Synopsis Minor. It is principally borrowed from a work of Michael Attaliata. A fragment
of the work relating to the authority of the Leges
Rhodiae, was published by S. Schardius (Basel
1561), at the end of the Naval Laws, and the
same fragment appears in the collection of Leunclavius (J. G. R. ii. p. 472). Pardessus has published some further fragments of the Synopsis
Minor (Collection de Lois lMaritimes, i. pp. 164,
195-204), and Zachariae has given some extracts from it (Hist. Jur. G. R. p. 76); but the
greater part of the work is still in manuscript.
Bach conjectures that the compilation of the Rhodian laws themselves was made by Docimus
(Hist. Jur. Rom. lib. iv. c. 1, sect. 3. ~ 26, p.
638); but Zachariae is of opinion, that the only
reason for attributing to him the authorship of the
Synopsis Minor was, that the manuscript of
Vienna, from which the fragment in Schardius
and Leunclavius was published, once belonged to
a person named Docimus. [J. T. G.]
DOION (Awodv), a son of Zeus by Europa,
from whom the oracle of Dodona was believed to
have derived its name. (Steph. Byz. s. v. AUScldv.)
Other traditions traced the name to a nymph of the
name of Dodone. [L. S.]
DOLABELLA, sometimes written Dolobella,
the name of a family of the patrician Cornelia
gens. (Ruhnken, ad Vell. Pat. ii. 43.)
1. P. CORNELIUS DOLABELLA MAXIMUS, was
consul in B. c. 283 with Cn. Domitius Calvinus,
and in that year conquered the Senones, who had
defeated the praetor L. Caecilius, and murdered
the Roman ambassadors. Owing to the loss of
the consular Fasti for that time we do not hear of
his triumph, though he undoubtedly celebrated his
victory by a triumph. In B. c. 279 he, together
with C. Fabricius and Q. Aemilius, went to
Pyrrhus as ambassadors to effect an exchange of
prisoners. (Eutrop. ii. 6; Florus, i. 13; Appian,
Samnit. 6, Gall. 11; Dionys. Excerpt, p. 2344,
ed. Reiske, and p. 75, ed. Frankfurt.)
2. CN. CORNELIUS DOLABELLA, was inaugurated in B. c. 208 as rex sacrorum in the place of
M. Marcius, and he held this office until his death
in B. c. 180. (Liv. xxvii. 36, xl. 42.)
3. L. CORNELIUS DOLABELLA, was duumnvir
navalis in B. c. 180. In that year his kinsman,
Cn. Cornelius Dolabella, the rex sacrorum, died,
and our Dolabella wanted to become his successor.
But C. Servilius, the pontifex maximus, before inaugurating him, demanded of him to resign his
office of duumvir navalis. When Dolabella refused to obey this command, the pontifex inflicted
a fine upon him. Dolabella appealed against it to
the people. Several tribes had already given their
vote that Dolabella ought to obey, and that he
should be released from the fine if he would resign
the office of duumvir navalis, when some sign in
the heavens broke up the assembly. This was a
fresh reason for the pontiff's refusing to inaugurate
Dolabella. As duumvir navalis he and his colleague, C. Furius, had to protect the eastern
coast of Italy with a fleet of twenty sail against
the Illyrians. (Liv. xl. 42; xii. 5.)
4. CN. CORNELIUS DOLABELLA, was curule

DOLABELLA.
aedile in B. c. 165, in which year he and his colleague, Sex. Julius Caesar, had the Hecyra of Terence performed at the festival of the Megalesia.
In B. c. 159 he was consul with M. Fulvius Nobilior. (Title of Terent. HIecyr.; Suet. Vit. Terent. 5.)
5. CN. CORNELIUS DOLABELLA, a grandson of
No. 4, and a son of the Cn. Cornelius Dolabella
who was put to death in B. c. 100, together with
the tribune Appuleins Saturninus. During the
civil war between Marius and Sulla, Dolabella
sided with the latter, and in B. c. 81, when Sulla
was dictator, Dolabella was raised to the consulship, and afterwards received Macedonia for his
province. He there carried on a successful war
against the Thracians, for which he was rewarded
on his return with a triumph. In B. c. 77, however, young Julius Caesar charged him with having
been guilty of extortion in his province, but he
was acquitted. (Oros. v. 17; Plut. Sulla, 28,
&c.; Appian, B. C. i. 100; Suet. Caes. 4, 49,
55; Veil. Pat. ii. 43; Aurel. Vict. de Vir.
Ill. 78; Val. Max. viii. 9. ~ 3; Cic. in
Pison. 19, Brut. 92, de Leg. Agr. ii. 14; Tacit.
de Orat. 34; Gellius, xv. 28; Ascon. in Scaur.
p. 29, in Cornel. p. 73, ed. Orelli.)
6. CN. CORNELIUS DOLABELLA, was praetor
urbanus, in B. c. 81, when the cause of P. Quintius was tried. Cicero charges him with having
acted on that occasion unjustly and against all
established usages. The year after he had Cilicia
for his province, and C. Malleolus was his quaestor, and the notorious Verres his legate. Dolabella not only tolerated the extortions and robberies committed by them, but shared in their
booty. He was especially indulgent towards
Verres, and, after Malleolus was murdered, he
made Verres his proquaestor. After his return to
Rome, Dolabella was accused by M. Aemilius
Scaurus of extortion in his province, and on that
occasion Verres not only deserted his accomplice,
but furnished the accuser with all the necessary
information, and even spoke himself publicly
against Dolabella. Many of the crimes committed by Verres himself were thus put to the
account of Dolabella, who was therefore condemned. He went into exile, and left his wife
and children behind him in great poverty. (Cic.
pro Quint. 2, 8; in Verr. i. 4, 15, 17, 29; Ascon.
in Cornel. p. 110, ed. Olelli, who however confounds him with No. 5.)
7. P. CORNELIUS DOLABELLA, was praetor urbanus in B. c. 67; if, as is usually supposed, this
be the year in which Cicero spoke for Aulus Caecina. (Cic. pro Caec. 8.) He seems to be the
same person as the Dolabella who is mentioned
by Valerius Maximus, (viii. 1, Ambustae, ~ 2,) as
governor of Asia, with the title of proconsul.
(Comp. Gell. xii. 7, where he bears the praenomen Cneius; Amm. Marc. xxix. 2.)
8. P. CORNELIUS DOLABELLA, perhaps a son
of No. 7, was one of the most profligate men of
his time. He was born about B. c. 70, and is
said to have been guilty, even in early youth, of
some capital offences, which might have cost him
his life, had not Cicero defended and saved him
with great exertions. In n. c. 51, he was appointed a member of the college of the quindecimviri, and the year following he accused Appius
Claudius of having violated the sovereign rights of
the people. While this trial was going on, Fabisa