PageBook=>062 were debarred from public life until restored by the Dictator. 1 Two of the three, Gabinius and Messalla, received military commands in the Civil War. […] Domitius Calvinus, and he was no better than his colleague Messalla or his illustrious predecessors, for all four had been involved in flagrant electoral scandals. 2 For the rest, elderly survivors, nonentities, neutrals or renegades.