Publius Cornelius Scipio (consul 16 BC)

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Publius Cornelius Scipio (born 48 BC) was a Roman senator active during the Principate. He was consul in 16 BC as the colleague of Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus. [1] He was also proconsular governor of Asia, probably around the years 8/7 BC. [2]

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Ancestry

Little is known about Scipio's ancestry, beyond his father's praenomen Publius . The latest securely documented members of the Cornelii Scipiones was Metellus Scipio and his daughter Cornelia; there were still several Scipiones during the Principate, but how they are related is a subject of conjecture. The use of Publius, primarily used by the Scipiones Nasicae, could indicate that he was the grandson of Metellus Scipio, but he could have also been a son (or grandson) of Scipio Salvito. [3]

It was long believed the consul of 16 BC was the son of a hypothesized Publius Cornelius Scipio, the first husband of Scribonia, later the wife of Octavian. [4] Suetonius only mentions children from Scribonia's second marriage. [5]

Family

At least two people have been identified as his children by an unidentified woman:

Syme also suggests possible third child, the "Cornelia Scipionum gentis" wife of the long-lived Lucius Volusius Saturninus, consul in AD 3. [11] However, in another part of his book Syme notes this Cornelia is mentioned in an inscription as "L.f." [12] and suggests Scipio's possible daughter was the mother of Volusius' wife by Lucius Cornelius Lentulus consul of 3 BC. [13] Etcheto rejects this connection with the Corneli Lentuli, and considers that she was a direct heir of the Scipiones, but does not attempt to identify her father. [14]

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References

  1. ↑ Cooley, The Cambridge Manual of Latin Epigraphy, p. 457
  2. ↑ Syme, The Augustan Aristocracy, pp. 252, 405.
  3. ↑ Etcheto, Les Scipions, p. 191.
  4. ↑ The history of this mistake is set forth in John Scheid, "Scribonia Caesaris et les Cornelii Lentuli", Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique , 100 (1976), pp. 485-491
  5. ↑ Suetonius, Life of Augustus, 62: "Mox (Caesar) Scriboniam in matrimonium accepit, nuptam ante duobus consularibus, ex altero etiam matrem."
  6. ↑ Velleius Paterculus, 2.100
  7. ↑ Syme, The Augustan Aristocracy, pp. 59, 252
  8. ↑ Etcheto, Les Scipions, pp. 191, 192.
  9. ↑ AE 1967, 458
  10. ↑ Etcheto, Les Scipions, p. 192.
  11. ↑ Syme, The Augustan Aristocracy, p 59
  12. ↑ CIL XV, 7441
  13. ↑ Syme, The Augustan Aristocracy, pp. 252f
  14. ↑ Etcheto, Les Scipions, pp. 192, 193.

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