Perhaps governor of Sicily (Cic. Verr. 2.2.110). (Broughton MRR II)
Badian, noting the uncertain reading of the cognomen in ILS 864 (SCHIZIAM or FIIZIVM) and the early doubling of the consonant in caussa, suggests that the inscription may honor, not a Scipio, but L. Cornelius Sisenna (374), Pr. 78 and possibly procos. in Sicily in 77 (MRR 2.86, 90) (Gnomon 39, 1967, 94, note 1). See Degrassi, ILLRP 320, and Acta 5th Internat. Cong. Gr. and Lat. Epig. 169-170; and also Balsdon, Historia 21, 1972, 224-234.
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Praetor 78. Pro praetore Sicily 77. See above, on L. Cornelius Scipio (Asiaticus) (337). Cos. 190.
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Legatus Pro Praetore
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Mediterranean
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Under Cn. Pompeius Magnus against the pirates: (Broughton MRR II)
15 Under the Gabinian law Pompey was entitled to appoint Legates with praetorian imperium (App. Mith. 94; cf. SIG³ 750; Plut. Pomp. 26) to the number, according to Plutarch, of 15 (Pomp. 25; cf. Dio 36.37), according to Appian (Mith. 94), of 24; of that number we have the names of the 15 listed above, 13 of whom held command each in one of the 13 special areas designated by Pompey (see Zonar. 10.3). Their appointment may well have been extended in a number of cases with the extension of the term of Pompey's command under the Manilian law. At any rate Gellius was still in command of a fleet in 63 (Cic. P. Red. ad Quir. 17). See Mommsen, Str. 2.656, note 2; Th. Reinach, RPh 14 (1890) 150. On his Legates and plan of campaign, see P. Groebe, Klio 10 (1910) 374-389; H. A. Ormerod, Liverpool Annals of Art and Archaeology 10 (1923) 46-51. (Broughton MRR II)
Held command of the coast of Macedonia and Greece in the western Aegean (App. Mith. 95). He became involved in the quarrel between Pompey and Metellus Creticus, but died during the year (Dio 36.18-19; cf. Plut. Pomp. 29, on Octavius). (Broughton MRR II)