Consularem hominem consulari imperio provinciam Asiam obtinentem Samiario exsuli tradidit interficere captum statim noluit, ne nimis, credo, in victoria liberalis videretur.
Dolabella handed him over, a man of consular rank holding the province of Asia by consular authority, to one Samiarius, an exile. He did not choose to kill his prisoner out of hand; that would have looked too much like generosity in victory.
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