Dolabella

Family: Othonian · Role: ex-praetor · First appears: Histories II.59-63

Life events

Vitellius ordered Dolabella’s execution after accusations that he had joined Otho’s defeated party.(Histories II.59-63 · 📍 Rome)
- With: Vitellius
- “He gave orders for the execution of Dolabella, whom Otho, as we have seen, had relegated to the colonial town of Aquinum.”
Triaria frightened Flavius Sabinus into hastening Dolabella’s ruin.(Histories II.59-63)
- With: Flavius Sabinus Triaria
- “Sabinus was naturally of a kindly disposition, but easily changed under the influence of fear. Though it was not he who was in danger, he was full of alarms, and hastened Dolabella's impending ruin”
Vitellius ordered Dolabella's murder, and an assassin killed him at a wayside inn.(Histories II.64-68 · 📍 Interamnium)
- With: Vitellius
- “summoned Dolabella by letter to avoid the crowded thoroughfare of the Flaminian road and to turn off to Interamnium, where he gave orders for his murder. The assassin found the journey tedious; discovered his victim sleeping on the floor at a wayside inn, and cut his throat.”

enemies with Vitellius “He gave orders for the execution of Dolabella, whom Otho, as we have seen, had relegated to the colonial town of Aquinum.”
enemies with Otho “He gave orders for the execution of Dolabella, whom Otho, as we have seen, had relegated to the colonial town of Aquinum.”
friends with Plancius Varus “Plancius Varus, one of Dolabella's closest friends, laid information before the city prefect, Flavius Sabinus, maintaining that he had broken from custody to put himself at the head of the defeated party.”
enemies with Flavius Sabinus “Sabinus was naturally of a kindly disposition, but easily changed under the influence of fear. Though it was not he who was in danger, he was full of alarms, and hastened Dolabella's impending ruin for fear of being supposed to have helped him.”
enemies with Triaria “While Flavius Sabinus was hesitating what to do in such a serious matter, Lucius Vitellius' wife, Triaria, whose cruelty was altogether unwomanly, terrified him by suggesting that he was trying to get a reputation for mercy at the expense of his emperor's safety.”

enemies with Vitellius “Vitellius, accordingly, from motives both of suspicion and of hatred (Dolabella had married his divorced wife Petronia), summoned Dolabella by letter to avoid the crowded thoroughfare of the Flaminian road and to turn off to Interamnium, where he gave orders for his murder.”
married with Petronia “Dolabella had married his divorced wife Petronia”

Extracted from the original text of Tacitus — The Histories & The Annals (Books I-VI) & Agricola. Made with Rho MD.