Gnaeus Cornelius Dolabella (relative of Galba's)

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Gnaeus Cornelius Dolabella († 69 ) was a Roman from a patrician family who lived in the 1st century AD. Presumably he was a grandson of the consul of 10 AD, Publius Cornelius Dolabella .

In 69 Dolabella got into the turmoil of the four emperors year after the end of the Julio-Claudian dynasty . He was the last male relative of the Emperor Galba and thus, like his confidante Marcus Salvius Otho , a potential candidate to succeed Galba. However, Galba decided against adopting these two and chose Piso Licinianus as heir.

After the usurpation of Othos and the murder of Galba, Otho had Dolabella banished to Aquinum as the new emperor .

When Dolabella left Othos Aquinum after his death, he was accused of having his own ambitions for the empire. The new emperor Vitellius probably therefore ordered his execution, which was to take place in Interamna . However, he was killed on the way there. Aulus Vitellius may also take revenge on his first wife Petronia, whose separation Vitellius had to struggle with. Dolabella's wife was Petronia , who had been married to Vitellius for the first time. The son of Dolabella and Petronia, Servius Cornelius Dolabella Petronianus , was consul in 86.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Plutarch , Galba 23.1.
  2. ↑ Tacitus , Historien 1,88,1.
  3. ↑ Tacitus, Historien 2,63.
  4. ↑ Tacitus, Historien 2,64.

literature

personal data
SURNAME Cornelius Dolabella, Gnaeus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dolabella, Gnaeus Cornelius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman patrician
DATE OF BIRTH 1st century BC BC or 1st century
DATE OF DEATH 69
Place of death at Interamna