Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Calvus

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Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Calvus († 211 BC ) was a Roman general and statesman.

Gnaeus was a son of Lucius Cornelius Scipios and the brother of Publius Cornelius Scipios . He was in the year 222 BC. Chr. Consul and fought in the Second Punic War v from 218. On the Iberian Peninsula . Still in 218 BC He succeeded in the battle of Cissa in a victory over the Punic general Hanno and the chief of the Iberian tribe of the Ilergetes , Indibilis , both of whom were taken prisoner. Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio was born in 211 BC. Killed in the battle of Ilorci .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Polybios 2, 34.1; on the magistrates of 222 see: T. Robert S. Broughton : The Magistrates Of The Roman Republic. Volume 1: 509 BC - 100 BC (= Philological Monographs. Vol. 15, Part 1, ZDB -ID 418575-4 ). American Philological Association, New York NY 1951, pp. 232 f., (Unchanged reprint 1968).
  2. ↑ Polybios 3, 76, 6; Titus Livius 21, 60, 1-9.
personal data
SURNAME Cornelius Scipio Calvus, Gnaeus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Scipio Calvus, Gnaeus Cornelius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman general and statesman
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 211 BC Chr.