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Δολοβέλλαν (Dolobellan)

Δολοβέλλαν is an Ancient Greek form of Δολοβέλλας, meaning “Dolabella — a cognomen of the Cornelii (e.g. Cicero's son-in-law)”.

Found 43 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Sulla 28.4: … μέραν ὡς μεγάλην αὐτῷ δυστυχίαν φέρουσαν. διὰ τοῦτο μὲν δὴ πρόθυμος ὁ Σύλλας ἦν μάχεσθαι, καὶ μετεπέμπετο τὸν Δολοβέλλαν ἄπωθεν στρατοπε δεύοντα.

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.