Digital Prosopography of the Roman Republic

CORN0519 P. Cornelius (329) P. f. Scipio

Status

  • Patrician
  • Nobilis Expand

    Liv. 9.34.6 (all censors between lex Aemilia and 310 "nobilissimi... viri")

Life Dates

  • 391?, birth (Develin 1979) Expand

    Develin no. 5.

Relationships

son of
P. Cornelius (328) Scipio (tr. mil. c. p. 395) (RE)
brother of
? L. Cornelius (322) P. f. Scipio (cos. 350) (DPRR Team)

Career

  • Aedilis Curulis 366 (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • The first holders of this office, which was created to have charge of the Ludi Maximi, when the Aediles of the Plebs refused to celebrate it. Though at first restricted to patricians, it soon was opened to plebeians in alternate years (Liv. 6.42.12-14; 7.1.2 and 5-6). (Broughton MRR I)
  • Magister Equitum 350 (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • Liv. 7.24.11; Fast. Cap. See Degrassi 34f., 106, 406f. (Broughton MRR I)
  • Censor 340 (Broughton MRR I) Expand
    • This censorship is doubtful (see RE on no. 322), since Velleius may possibly be thinking simply of brothers who were colleagues in the same office and not specifically of the censorship. If a censorship is meant it must date before 339 when a Publilian law made it necessary to elect a plebeian to at least one place. See 339, Dictator. (Broughton MRR I)
    • Vell. 2.8.2; cf. Jerome Chr. ad ann. 340, p. 122 Helm; Degrassi 107, 408f. (Broughton MRR I)

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