At Cornelius Dolabella, dum adulationem longius sequitur, increpitis C. Silani moribus addidit ne quis vita probrosus et opertus infamia provinciam sortiretur, idque princeps diiudicaret.
Tiberius approved; but Cornelius Dolabella, to pursue the sycophancy further, proposed, after an attack on Silanus character, that no man of scandalous life and bankrupt reputation should be eligible for a province, the decision in such cases to rest with the emperor.
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