Publius Cornelius Dolabella was a
Roman
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senator, who was active during the reign of
Nero
Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus ( ; born Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus; 15 December AD 37 – 9 June AD 68), was the fifth Roman emperor and final emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, reigning from AD 54 unti ...
. He was
suffect consul in the ''
nundinium'' of May to June 55 as the colleague of
Seneca the Younger
Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Younger (; 65 AD), usually known mononymously as Seneca, was a Stoic philosopher of Ancient Rome, a statesman, dramatist, and, in one work, satirist, from the post-Augustan age of Latin literature.
Seneca was born in ...
.
A member of the
patrician order, he is likely the son of
Publius Cornelius Dolabella, consul in 10; it is also likely he was the father of
Servius Cornelius Dolabella Petronianus, consul in 86.
[Patrick Tansey]
"The Perils of Prosopography: The Case of the Cornelii Dolabellae"
''Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik'', 130 (2000), pp. 265-271
References
1st-century Romans
Publius (consul 808 AUC)
Roman patricians
Cornelius Dolabella, Publius (808 AUC)
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