Publius Cornelius Dolabella (cos. 44) edit

Career

1. 47 BCE
   Tribune of the Plebs edit
2. 44 BCE
   Consul ·suffect edit

   Caesar chose Dolabella with the intention that when he should depart for the Parthian war Dolabella should become Consul in his place (a), but Antony opposed the election (b). Dolabella however used the occasion of Caesar's assassination to secure the consent of both the Liberators and Antony to his succession (c). He probably joined Antony in carrying in April a law for the settlement of veterans (d). In the same month during Antony's absence from Rome he suppressed a worship of Caesar and destroyed a pillar that had been erected where the body had been burned (e). In the reallotment of consular provinces in April he received Syria (f; see above, on Antony; and below, Legates, on Cicero). Soon after presiding over the meeting of the Senate on September 2 (g) he prepared to depart for his province, and though still at Formiae on October 25 (h) returned no more to Rome. He was still Consul when he passed through Macedonia and took with him one legion from Caesar's former army there, and perhaps reached Asia by the end of the year (i). See 43, Promagistrates.

Family