Publius Cornelius Dolabella (suffect consul 35 BC)

Publius Cornelius Dolabella (fl. 1st century BC) was a Roman senator who was appointed suffect consul in 35 BC.

Biography

A member of the patrician Dolabella branch of the gens Cornelia, Dolabella was probably the descendant of Gnaeus Cornelius Dolabella, who was Urban praetor in 81 BC.[1] Much of his career is unknown; it is postulated that he may have been a triumvir monetalis in Sicily at some point early in his career. Appointed consul suffectus in 35 BC to replace Sextus Pompeius, it is not known whether he was a partisan of Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus or Marcus Antonius. He also perhaps may have been the Dolabella who accompanied Augustus to Gaul between 16 – 13 BC.[2]

It is speculated that Dolabella married a Quinctilia, a sister of Publius Quinctilius Varus, and that their son was Publius Cornelius Dolabella, who was Roman consul in AD 10.[3]

Sources

References

  1. ↑ Tansey, pp. 266f
  2. ↑ Tansey, pg. 266
  3. ↑ Tansey, pg. 271
Political offices
Preceded by
Lucius Cornificius,
and Sextus Pompeius
as ordinary consuls		 Suffect Consul of the Roman Republic
35 BC
with Titus Peducaeus		 Succeeded by
Marcus Antonius II, and
Lucius Scribonius Libo
as ordinary consuls
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