Gens:

CORNELIUS DOLABELLA

Created:

21st September 2013

Update:

9th February 2017

Status Republic:

Patrician:

Pleb. Nobilis:

Senatorial:

Eques Romanus:

Local magistrates

Republican Family / Cognomen

Patrician

Dolabella

Pleb. Nobilis

n/a

Senatorial

n/a

Equestrian

n/a

Local magistrat.

n/a

Imperial Family / Cognomen

Imperators

n/a

Consular

Dolabella

Senatorial

n/a

Equestrian

n/a

Local magistrat.

n/a

Republican Consuls, Tribunes with consular power, Dictators, Magister Equitum, Censors

Imperial Consuls and Emperors (Augusti and Caesars)

incl. 0 emperors

Notes:

Cognomen Dolabella means "hatchet", possibly the cos 283 BC received this for his victory over the Gauls and belongs to one of the other known Patrician Cornelii.

Literature

Badian, E.: "The Dolabellae of the Republic", in Papers of the British School at Rome, Vol. 33 (1965), pp. 48-51, with stemma (followed below) on p.51

Cebeillac: Quaestores Principis (1972) p.111-113 (Ser.Cornelius Dolabella etc cos suff 113)

Fitz: Pannonien (1995) p.76-79 (§16 P.Cornelius Dolabella cos 10 AD)

Gruen, Erich S.: "The Dolabellae and Sulla", in The American Journal of Philology, Vol. 87, 1966, pp. 385-399

Jagenteufel: Dalmatia (1958) p.11-17 (§3 P.Cornelius Dolabella cos 10 AD))

PIR2 vol. C with stemma p.318

Rüpke: Fasti Sacerdotum p.634-635 (§1322-§1328 on the priestly Dolabellae, comments used below)

Salomies, Olli: "Zu den Fasti consulares von Tauromenium", in ZPE Bd. 86 (1991), pp.187-192 discusses that the cos suff of 35 BC was a P.Dolabella not a P.Scipio.

Shackleton Bailey, D.R.: "Two Studies in Roman Nomenclature", in American Classical Studies Number 3, The American Philological Association 1976, p.29-32 + 72

on possible adoptive father of cos 44 BC: candidates are Cn.Cornelius Lentulus Vatia (RE241) and P.Cornelius Lentulus Marcellinus q 48 (RE232)

Tansey, Patrick: "The Perils of Prosopography: The Case of the Cornelii Dolabellae", Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 130 (2000) 265–271

Argues that the imperial Dolabellae descend from the cos 35BC, since cos 44BC was Plebeian by adoption. However cos 44's eldest son was born prior to 48 and

could have been manumitted prior to adrogatio and thus kept his Patrican status, or 44's descendents could have been adlected into Patriciate as were many

plebeian nobilis families. He also suggests that the cos 35BC was the son of the pr 69, and the cos 44 had another father.

Thomasson: Fasti Africani (1996) p.30-31 (P.Cornelius Dolabella cos 10 AD)

Vogel-Weidemann: Statthalter (1982) p.85-92 (P.Cornelius Dolabella cos 10 AD)

Changes

15.9.2013 minor additions.

21.9.2013 comment on Tansey added.

09.02.2017 New header plus many updates

RE139

P. (or Cn.) Cornelius Dolabella

cos 283 triumph

envoy to Pyrrhus 280

P. by Cassiodorus, Cn. by Eutropius

(Cornelius Dolabella)

Cn.Cornelius Dolabella

RE131

Cn.Cornelius Cn.f. Dolabella

(Cornelius Dolabella)

monet 211/209 rex sacr 208

† 180

RE132

RE137

Cn.Cornelius Cn.f.Cn.n. Dolabella

L.Cornelius Dolabella

cur aed 165 pr c.162 cos 159

II vir nav 180-178

failed to succeed Cn.Cornelius Dolabella as rex sacr 180

or younger son of RE131

(Cn.Cornelius Dolabella)

P.Cornelius L.f. Dolabella

RE133

RE138

RE134

Cn.Cornelius Dolabella

L.Cornelius P.f.L.n. Dolabella

Cn.Cornelius P.f.(L.n.) Dolabella

† 100 killed in riots

pr Hisp Ult c.100 procos 99-98

tr pl 89 leg 83-82 cos 81

cousin or halfbrother of

triumph 98

procos Macedonia 80-77

L.Appuleius Saturninus tr pl 103 100

triumph 77 acquitted de repetundis 77

RE135

RE140

RE22a

Cn.Cornelius (Cn.f.Cn.n.) Dolabella

P.Cornelius Dolabella

Cornelius Lentulus

Cn.Cornelius Cn.f.

pr 81 propr Cilicia 80-79

pr urb 69

plebeian

tribus Palatina

convicted de repetundis and exiled 78

propr Asia 68

see Shackleton Bailey above

tr mil on Cn.Pompeius Strabo's consilium 89

? = Cn.Cornelius tr mil 89 (RE22a)

adopted 48

? = RE135. A Lentulus or a Blaesio also possible.

RE141

(Cornelius Dolabella)

P.Cornelius P.f. Dolabella (Lentulus)

* 69 (Appian says aged 25 in 44, probably incorrectly), guesss * 79-74?

XV vir sf 51 leg (?) 49-48 tr pl 47 leg (?) 45 cos suf 44

VII vir agr divid 44 procos Syria 44-43 † 43 suicide

Was also adopted by an unknown Livia.

1 ~ (div 50) Fabia,

2 ~ (div 46) Tullia, dt of

far older. (RE173)

M.Tullius Cicero cos 63

not in RE

C1345 RE130 RE142

RE172a

P.Cornelius Dolabella

filius

(Cornelius) Lentulus

cos suff 35 BC

in Alexandria as comes of Octavian 30

*† 49

* Jan 45

or grd.son cos 81

? = P.Cornelius P.f.Dolabella, pr, honored Athens (RE142)

† after March 45

? = Dolabella legatus after 27 BC (16/13 BC)

~ Quinctilia, sister of

P.Quinctilius Varus cos 13

REPUBLIC

IMPERIAL

C1349

C1348 RE143

P.Cornelius Dolabella

P.Cornelius P.f.P.n. Dolabella

spoke in senate 47

pr, cos ord 10 AD

either = C1348 (aged c.70)

leg pro pr Illyricum Sup (= Dalmatia) 14-20

or less likely C1347

IIII vir quinq at Salonae in Dalmatia

procos Africa 23-24 ment as prosecutor 27

VII vir epulo after 6 BC, sodalis Titii

or son of cos 35 BC

?~ Sulpicia Galbilla (FOS742) dt of C. Sulpicius Galba cos 22

C1347 C1346 RE136

C1487 RE435 FOS283

P.Cornelius Dolabella

(Cornelia) Dollabellina

not Cnaeus, Salius 38 (C1346)

ment on funeral inscription

cos suff 55

of libertus

† 69 exc by Imp VITELLIUS

sub TIBERIUS or CLAUDIUS

son of niece to Imp GALBA

~ Petronia P.f. (1 ~ VITELLIUS Imp 69)

sister ? of P.Petronius Turpilianus cos 61

C1351 RE147

Ser.Cornelius Dolabella Petronianus

cos ord 86 † post 105

senior pont or flamen Quirinalis 101/102

1~ (Metilia FOS544 ?), ? sister

2~ (Verania FOS787)

of P.Metilius Nepos cos suff 91

C1350 RE145 RE146

C1352 RE148

Ser.Cornelius Ser.f.P.n.P.pron.P.abn. Dolabella

[Cornelius Dola]bella Veranianus

Metilianus Pompeius Marcellus

camillus with the arvals 105

salius Palatinus, monet, q Aug c.101/103

sevir equitum Romanorum turmae III,

pr, cos suff 113, flamen Quirinalis

patron Corfinium, no descendents

~ Iulia Agrippina (FOS429)

dt of Iulius Paullus, praetorius, of Pisidia

UNCERTAIN DATE

RE129

(Cornelius) Dolabella

legatus Tarraconensis