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Publius Cornelius Dolabella (consul 44 BC)

Roman general and politician (died 43 BC)

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Source revisionJun 12, 2026
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Publius Cornelius Dolabella was a Roman politician and general under the dictator Julius Caesar. He was by far the most important of the patrician Cornelii Dolabellae but he arranged for himself to be adopted into the plebeian Cornelii Lentuli so that he could become a plebeian tribune. He married Cicero's daughter, Tullia, although he frequently engaged in extramarital affairs. Throughout his life he was an extreme profligate, something that Plutarch wrote reflected ill upon his patron Julius Caesar.

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Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current 78-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Publius, Cornelius and Dolabella can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “Publius Cornelius Dolabella (consul 44 BC)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.