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287:(49–45 BC) Dolabella at first took the side of
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876:"The Roman Nobility in the Second Civil War"
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409:the consul of 35 BC. He was also married to
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1249:The bloodied toga: a novel of Julius Caesar
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243:wrote reflected ill upon his patron
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1093:Tempest, Kathryn (March 24, 2011).
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