- Lucius Cornelius Scipio
Lucius Cornelius Scipio is the name of several eminent members of the family Cornelii Scipiones (gens Cornelia, stirps or branch Scipio). The most well known Lucius Cornelius Scipio was brother of
Scipio Africanus and was accredited for the defeat of Antiocus III, the King of Syria, and his army at Magnesia in 189 BC. Among those illustrious Romans known by this short name (and so referred to by historians such as Livy) are:*Lucius Cornelius Scipio, consul
350 BC , and the first known man with the cognomen Scipio to become consul. He may have been son ofPublius Cornelius Scipio, consular tribune 395 BC , who was the first Scipio to be named in Livy asMaster of the Horse toMarcus Furius Camillus .*
Lucius Cornelius Scipio Barbatus , consul 298 BC and patrician censor 280 BC; his tomb inscription provides many clues about the Early and Middle Republic. He was father of the following:*
Lucius Cornelius Scipio (consul 259 BC) , and censor 258 BC; paternal grandfather ofScipio Africanus and the following:*Lucius Cornelius Scipio Asiaticus, consul 190 BC, victor of the
Battle of Magnesia (190 BC), who was degraded from the Senate by Cato the Censor. He was younger brother ofScipio Africanus and uncle to the following:*Lucius Cornelius Scipio praetor in 174 BC. He was a son of
Scipio Africanus Major , who was captured in192 BC byAntiochus III but released sometime before thebattle of Magnesia in190 BC . (The accounts of this episode are confused.) His father's secretary, aGaius Cicereius , helped him win apraetor ship in174 BC .fact|date=March 2007Others known by the name of Lucius Cornelius Scipio included
*Lucius Cornelius Scipio Asiaticus Asiagenes , consul 83 BC, who was descended from Scipio Asiaticus. He and his adopted son were killed in exile by the adherents ofSulla .ee also
*
Scipio-Paullus-Gracchus family tree
*Cornelius, Scipio
*Scipio Africanus
*Scipio Asiaticus for a fuller entry on the second Lucius Cornelius Scipio
*Lucius Cornelius P.f. P.n. Scipio for a fuller entry on the youngest named Scipio.
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.
