Publius Cornelius Scipio (Consul 16 BC)

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Publius Cornelius Scipio was a Roman senator in the time of Augustus .

Its origin is reconstructed in various ways in research. Possibly he was the son of Scribonia , the temporary wife of Augustus, from her marriage to a Cornelius, whose identity is also not clearly established; possibly it was Publius Cornelius, suffect consul in 35 BC. However, other scholars identify the son of Scribonia with Publius Cornelius Lentulus Marcellinus (consul 18 BC). In 16 BC Publius Cornelius Scipio was a full consul , together with Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus . Later, maybe 8/7 BC. He was proconsul of the province of Asia . After that, nothing more is known about him.

Scipio probably had at least two sons, one of whom is occupied as quaestor in the province of Achaia around AD 2 , the other 2 BC. Was involved in the scandal surrounding Augustus' daughter Julia . One possible daughter is the wife of the suffect consul of the year 3 AD, Lucius Volusius .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ronald Syme : The Augustan aristocracy . Clarendon Press, Oxford 1986, p. 57; Pp. 245-249.
  2. ^ Jacques Scheid, Scribonia Caesaris et les Cornelii Lentuli , in: Bulletin de Correspondence Hellénique 100 (1976), pp. 485-491.
  3. ^ Syme, Augustan aristocray , pp. 62 and 252.
  4. ^ Syme, Augustan aristocray , p. 62.
  5. ^ Syme, Augustan aristocray , p. 59.
  6. ↑ L'Année épigraphique 1967, 458.
  7. ^ Syme, Augustan aristocray , p. 252.
  8. ↑ Pliny the Elder , Naturalis historia 7, 62 .
personal data
SURNAME Cornelius Scipio, Publius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Scipio, Publius Cornelius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman consul
DATE OF BIRTH 1st century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 1st century BC BC or 1st century