Seneca the Elder wrote that Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus called Dellius the desultor bellorum civilium[2] ("circus-rider of civil war"), for allegedly frequently changing sides.
[1] In 41 BC, he travelled on Antony's orders to Alexandria to summon the Egyptian queen, Cleopatra VII, to the river Cydnus near Tarsus in Cilicia.
Two years later he was instructed to persuade the Armenian king Artavasdes II to wed his four-year-old daughter to the six-year-old Alexander Helios, the son of Antony and Cleopatra VII.
[11] Therefore, it is often assumed that his book was an important source for Plutarch's biography of Antony,[1] and for the accounts of Strabo and other later historians of the Parthian campaigns of Publius Ventidius and Anthony.
[20] Leisner-Jensen (1997) concluded that their interpretation of a passing mention of just six words had been overstretched: '[A]ll these very interesting results of painstaking scholarship unfortunately are unsupported by other evidence.