Digital Prosopography of the Roman Republic

CORN1331 L. Cornelius (325) Scipio

Status

  • Patrician

Life Dates

  • 174, expelled from Senate (Broughton MRR I) Expand

    Liv. 41.27.2; cf. Val. Max. 3.5.1; 4.5.3

Relationships

son of
? Aemilia (179) Tertia (daughter of L. Aemilius (118) M. f. M. n. Paullus (cos. 219)) (DPRR Team)
P. Cornelius (336) P. f. L. n. Scipio Africanus Maior (cos. 205) (Zmeskal 2009) Expand

Auct. vir. ill. 49.16, Dio frg. 62 (2) (XIX), Iustin XXXI 7.4, Liv. XXXVII 37.6, Liv. XXXVIII 51.2, Oros. IV 20.22, Plin. n.h. XXXV 22, Pol. XXI 15 (12)

brother of
? Cornelia (406) (daughter of P. Cornelius (336) P. f. L. n. Scipio Africanus (cos. 205)) (DPRR Team)
? Cn. Cornelius (320, 325) Scipio (pr.? 177) (DPRR Team)
? P. Cornelius (331) P. f. P. n. Scipio (aug. after 181) (DPRR Team)
? Cornelia (407) (daughter of P. Cornelius (336) P. f. L. n. Scipio Africanus (cos. 205)) (DPRR Team)

Career

  • Praefectus Turmae? 190 (Suolahti 1955) Expand
    • C.41 (Suolahti 1955)
  • Praefectus Navium? 190 (Suolahti 1955) Expand
    • C.41 (Suolahti 1955)
  • Praetor 174 inter peregrinos, Rome (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • Provinces and armies Liv. 41.21.1-3 (Broughton MRR I)
    • Valerius Maximus (4.5.3; 3.5.1) refers to a Cn. Scipio (an unworthy son of Africanus) who was elected Praetor through the favor of Cicereius his father's scribe, and was prevented by his relatives and friends (propinqui) from exercising his office (id egerunt ne aut sellam ponere aut ius dicere auderet). The person indicated is probably not Cn. Scipio (see 177, note 1) but L. Scipio, Praetor 174, while Cicereius became Praetor in 173. (Broughton MRR I)
    • Censured by the Censors (Liv. 41.27.2; cf. Val. Max. 3.5.1; 4.5.3). (Broughton MRR I)
    • p. 734 (Brennan 2000)

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