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in the forum, Nasica called upon the consuls to mistake in Valerius Maximus of C. for COn. than
save the republic; but as they refused to have that he should have borne a praenomen which
recourse to violence, he exclaimed, " As the does not occur elsewhere in the family of the
consul betrays the state, do you who wish to obey Scipios.
the laws follow me," and so saying rushed forth 29. CN. CORNELIUS ScIPIO IIISPALLUS, the
from the temple of Fides, where the senate was son of No. 28, is mentioned only by Valerius
sitting, followed by the greater number of the Maximus, who relates (vi. 3. ~ 3), that he had
senators. The people gave way before them, and obtained the province of Spain by lot, but was
Gracchus was assassinated as he attempted to prevented by the senate from going thither on acescape (Appian, B. C. i. 16; Plut. Tib. Graclch. count of the disgraceful life he had previously led.
19; for further particulars see Vol. II. p. 293). 30. CORNELIUS SCIPIO SALUTIO, an obscure
In consequence of his conduct on this occasion person, whom Caesar is said to have carried with
Nasica became an object of such detestation to the him in his African campaign, B. c. 46, and to
people, that the senate found it advisable to send have placed in front of the army, because it was
him on a pretended mission to Asia, although he believed that a Scipio would always conquer in
was pontifex maximus, and ought not, therefore, Africa, and he had to fight against Metellus
to have quitted Italy. He did not venture to Scipio, the general of the Pompeian troops.
return to Rome, and after wandering about from Others, however, thought that he did it as a kind
place to place, died soon afterwards at Pergamum. of joke, to show his contempt of Metellus Scipio.
(Plut. Tib. Gracch. 21; Cic. pro Flacc. 21; and Pliny relates that he was called Salutio from his
the other passages of Cicero in Orelli's Ononzast. resemblance to a mimus of this name. Dion
Toll. vol. ii. p. 191.) Cassius calls him Salatton. (Suet. Caes. 59; Plut.
25. P. CORNELIUS SCIPIO NASICA, son of No. Caes. 52; Dion Cass. xlii. 58; Plin. H. N. vii.
24, was consul B.c. 111, with L. Calpurnius 12, xxx. 2.)
Bestia, and remained in Italy, while his colleague 31. P. CORNELIUS SCIPIO, married Scribonia,
had the conduct of the war against Jugurtha. who was afterwards the wife of Augustns, and by
IHe died during his consulship. He is described whom he had two children [Nos. 32 and 33]. His
by Diodorus as a man who was inaccessible to descent is uncertain, and we have no particulars of
bribery throughout his life, though he lived in an his life. Suetonius says (Octav. 62) that both the
age of general corruption. Cicero speaks with husbands of Scribonia, before she was married to
praise of the affability of his address, in which Augustus, were men of consular rank; but this
his father was deficient; and although he spoke statement makes the matter still more uncertain,
neither much nor often in public, he was equal to since the last Scipio who obtained the consulship
any of his contemporaries in the purity of his was L. Scipio Asiaticus in B. c. 83. [No. 20.]
Latin, and surpassed them in wit and humour. 32. P. CORNELIUS SCIPIO, son of No. 31 and
(Sall. Jug. 27; Diod. Excerpt. p. 606, ed. Wess.; Scribonia, afterwards the wife of Augustus, was
Cic. de 0f: i. 30, Brtst. 34, pro Planec. 34, and consul B. c. 16 with L. Domitins Ahenobarbus.
Schol. Bob. p. 259, ed. Orelli.) (Dion Cass. liv. 19; Propert. iv. 11. 67.)
26. P. CORNELIUS SCIPIO NASICA, son of No. 33. CORNELIA, daughter of No. 31 and Scri25, praetor a. c. 94, is mentioned by Cicero as one bonia, married Paulus Aemilius Lepidus, censor
of the advocates of Sex. Roscius of Ameria. He B. C. 22. [LEPIDUS, No. 19.]
married Licinia, the second daughter of L. Crassus, 34. CORNELIUS SCIPIO, legatus of Junius Blaethe orator. (Cic. pro Sex. Rose. 28, Brut. 58.) sus, proconsul of Africa, under whom he served in
He had two sons, both of whom were adopted, the campaign against Tacfarinus in A. D. 22 (Tac.
one by his maternal grandfather L. Crassus in his Ann. iii. 74). He may, perhaps, have been the
testament, and is therefore called L. Licinius son of No. 32.
Crassus Scipio [CRAssus, No. 26]; and the other 35. CORNELIA, who married L. Volusius Saby Q. Caecilius Metellus Pius, consul B. c. 80, turninus, consul suffectus A. D. 3, and who was
and is therefore called Q. Caecilius Metellus Pius the mother of Q. Volusius Saturninus, consul A. D.
Scipio. This Scipio became the father-in-law of 56 (Plin. H. N. vii. 12. s. 14), may have been the
Cn. Pompey the triumvir, and fell in Africa in sister of No. 34. [S&TURNINUS, VOLUSIUS, NOS.
B. C. 46. His life is given elsewhere. [METEL- 2 and 3.]
LUS, No. 22.] 36. P. CORNELIUS SCIP'O, perhaps the son of
27. CN. CORNELIUS SCIPIO HISPALLUS, a son 34, was the husband of Poppaea Sabina, who
of L. Scipio [No. 11], who was a brother of the two was put to death by Messalina, the wife of the
Scipios who fell in Spain. Hispallus was praetor emperor Claudius. He did not venture to exB. c. 179, and consul B.C. 171, with Q. Petillius press any disapprobation of the deed, and showed
Spurinus. He was struck with paralysis during his subserviency at a later period by proposing
his consulship, and died at Cumae in the course of in the senate that thanks should be returned
the year. (Liv. xl. 44, xli. 14, 16.) to Pallas, the freedman of Claudius, because he
28. CN. CORNELIUS SCIPIO HISPALLUS, son of allowed himself to be regarded as one of the
No. 27, was sent along with Scipio Nasica Serapio servants of the emperor, although he was descended
[No. 24], in B. C. 149, to demand from the Car- from the kings of Arcadia. He was consul under
thaginians the surrender of their arms (Appian, Nero in A. D. 56, with L. Volusius Saturninms,
Pun. 80). He was praetor, B. C. 139, when he who was probably his first cousin. (Tac. Amn.
published an edict that all Chaldaeans (i. e. astro- xi. 2, 4, xii. 53, xiii. 25; Plin. H. r. vii. 12.
logers) should leave Rome and Italy within ten s. 14.)
days (Val. Max. i. 3. ~2). Valerius Maximus (i.c.) The lives of the Scipios are given with accuracy
calls him Caius; whence Pighius makes him the by Haakh in the Real-Encyclopidie der classichenz
brother of the Hispallus mentioned by Appian, Altertlsunzswissensclcft, to which we have been much
but it is far more probable that there should be a indebted in drawing up the previous account.