Publius Cornelius Dolabella (consul 55) explained

Publius Cornelius Dolabella was a Roman senator, who was active during the reign of Nero. He was suffect consul in the nundinium of May to June 55 as the colleague of Seneca the Younger.^[1]

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.^[2]

Notes and References

1. Giuseppe Camodeca, "I consoli des 55–56 e un nuovo collega di seneca nel consolato: P. Cornelius Dolabella (TP.75 =1401 +135)*", Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 63 (1986), pp. 201–215.
2. Patrick Tansey, "The Perils of Prosopography: The Case of the Cornelii Dolabellae", Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 130 (2000), pp. 265-271