Gnaeus Cornelius Dolabella was a consul of the Roman Republic in 81 BC, with Marcus Tullius Decula, during the dictatorship of Sulla.
[5] In 77 BC Dolabella was granted a triumph for victories he had achieved while governor over the Thracians,[6] but shortly afterwards he was accused of extortion in Macedonia during his time as governor by the young Julius Caesar and brought to trial.
[7] Prosecuted by Caesar, Dolabella was defended by Gaius Aurelius Cotta and Quintus Hortensius.
[8] Dolabella is a minor character in the Colleen McCullough novel Fortune's Favourites.
The 2022 novel I Am Rome (Spanish: Roma soy yo) by the Spanish philologist, linguist and author Santiago Posteguillo, known for a series of novels set in ancient Rome, tells a fictional account based on well established historical facts, of how a young Julius Caesar prosecuted and brought Gnaeus Cornelius Dolabella to trial.