Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica

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Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica was a son of Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Calvus and a Roman consul in 191 BC. Chr.

He transferred 204 BC The Magna Mater . 197 BC He officiated as a curular aedile and organized extremely splendid Ludi Romani with his colleague Gnaeus Manlius Vulso . As praetor in Spain in 194 BC BC he defeated the Lusitans at Ilipa , as consul he subjugated the Boier and after violent controversy he was allowed to celebrate a triumph .

Nevertheless, he was not elected censor , not in the election of 189 BC. BC and not 184 BC BC, a failure that marked the decline of the Scipion's influence in Rome. He helped found the city of Aquileia in 181 BC. And occurs again in an investigation in 171 BC. Chr. On.

His son was Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica Corculum .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ 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, p. 333 (Unchanged reprint 1968).
  2. ^ Livius XXXV 1, 3–4
  3. ^ Livius XXXVI 1,8-9; 38, 5-7 and 39-40