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Therefore, that same fellow
whom Cnaeus Dolabella afterwards, when Caius Malleolus had been slain, had for his
quaestor, (I know not whether this connection was not even a closer one than the
connection with Carbo, and whether the consideration of his having been voluntarily
chosen is not stronger than that of his having been chosen by lot,) behaved to
Cnaeus Dolabella in the same manner as he had behaved in to Cnaeus Carbo. For, the
charges which properly touched himself, he transferred to his shoulders; and gave
information of everything connected with his cause to his enemies and accusers. He
himself gave most hostile and most infamous evidence against the man to whom he had
been lieutenant and pro-quaestor. Dolabella, unfortunate as he was, through his
abominable betrayal, through his infamous and false testimony, was injured far more
than by either, by the odium created by that fellow's own thefts and atrocities
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