Cornelius Dolabella

The Cornelii Dolabellae were an important branch of the Roman patrician family of the Cornelier .

The family branch has been documented in Rome since the 3rd century BC . The cognomen Dolabella , which all male representatives carried next to the gentile name Cornelius , is derived from the Latin word dolabra , an ax, and means little hoe . At first the name was only given individually, later it became hereditary. In the course of Roman history the family came from several important Roman politicians and generals; eight members of the family held the consulate .

Important representatives

• Publius Cornelius Dolabella (Consul 283 BC) , Consul 283 BC Chr.
• Gnaeus Cornelius Dolabella (Consul 159 BC) , Consul 159 BC Chr.
• Lucius Cornelius Dolabella (Duumvir navalis) , Duumvir navalis (naval admiral) 178 BC. Chr.
• Lucius Cornelius Dolabella (Praetor) , Praetor 100 BC Chr., 99/98 BC As propraetor in Spain
• Gnaeus Cornelius Dolabella (Consul 81 BC) , Consul 81 BC Chr.
• Gnaeus Cornelius Dolabella (Praetor 81 BC) , Praetor 81 BC Chr.
• Publius Cornelius Dolabella (Praetor 69 BC) , Praetor 69 or 68 BC Chr.
• Publius Cornelius Dolabella (Consul 44 BC) , Consul 44 BC Chr.
• Cornelius Dolabella , confidante of Augustus
• Publius Cornelius Dolabella (Consul 10) , Consul 10 AD
• Publius Cornelius Dolabella (suffect consul 55) , suffect consul 55
• Gnaeus Cornelius Dolabella (relative of Galba's) (murdered by Vitellius in 69), second husband of Petronia
• Servius Cornelius Dolabella Petronianus , Consul 86
• Servius Cornelius Dolabella Metilianus Pompeius Marcellus , suffect consul 113

literature

• Friedrich Münzer , Edmund Groag a . a .: Cornelius 127-148 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume IV, 1, Stuttgart 1900, Sp. 1296-1311 (directory of the Cornelii Dolabellae).
• Ernst Badian : The Dolabellae of the Republic . In: Papers of the British School at Rome . New Series, Vol. 20, 1965, pp. 48-51.