CORN0674 P. Cornelius (139) Dolabella

Status

  • Patrician

Life Dates

  • 282, death - violent (RE) Expand

    KIA or executed.

Career

  • Consul 283 (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • Fast. Cap. ([- - - -Ca]lvin. Maxim.); Chr. 354 (Calvo et Maximo); Fast. Hyd. (Dolabella et Maximo), so also Chr. Pasc.; Cassiod.; Oros. 3.22.12; cf. Eutrop. 2.10 (Cn. Cornelius Dolabella, but P. in Cassiod.); Degrassi, 40f., 112, 428f. Dolabella fought the Senones, destroyed combined forces of Gauls and Etruscans in Etruria, ravaged Senonian territory and celebrated a triumph (Dion. Hal. 19.12.2; Flor. 1.8.21; App. Samn. 6; Celt. 11; Dio fr. 38; Eutrop. 2.10; Oros. 3.22.12-13; see Degrassi, 545). According to Appian Domitius defeated the Senones in Etruria while his colleague ravaged their homeland (Celt. 11). Degrassi, following Pais, credits him also with a triumph (545). (Broughton MRR I)
  • Triumphator 283 (Rich 2014) Expand
    • Triumph de Galleis Senonibus. MRR I.188, III.79, Itgenshorst no. 103, Rich no. 103. (Rich 2014)
  • Legatus (Ambassador) 280 Apulia (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • Sent to treat with Pyrrhus for the ransom of the prisoners taken at Heracleia (Cic. Brut. 55; Plut. Pyrr. 20.1; App. Samn. 10.4; Dio fr. 40.20, and Zon. 8.4, on Fabricius; Dion. Hal. 19.13-19; Plut. Pyrr. 20; cf. Ennius, Ann. 6.194ff. V; Cic. Off. 1.38; Liv. Per. 13; Val. Max. 4.3.6; Iustin. 18.1.10-11; Dio fr. 40.29-39, and Zon. 8.4; Eutrop. 2.12.3; Auct. Vir. Ill. 35.6). (Broughton MRR I)
  • Legatus (Ambassador) 279 Apulia (Broughton MRR I)