Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica Corculum

Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica Corculum I: (205 before j-c in Rome - 141 before j-c? )

Wire of Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica (consul in 191 before j-c) and nephew of Scipio the africanus. His/her mother is unknown, but is given by some sources like Caecilia Metella, probably girl of Quintus Caecilius Letellus (consul in 206 before j-c). Father of Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica Serapio. He married with his cousin Cornelia Africana, the girl groin of Scipio afrianus. No other child is known, nor is the date of the marriage or of died of Cornelia. The marriage took place probably around 183-182 before j-c,

In 168 before j-c, it fights under the order of his brother of Lucius Aemilius Paulus Macedonius in Macedonia. It ordered one of the wings, as described by Livy.

In 162 before j-c, it is Consul. It finishes pacification undertook by the Consul Marcus Juventius Thalna.

But him and his/her colleague with the consulate abdicated because of bad prediction of the auspices. (Some sources suggest that the consul Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus, who was the brother of Corculum, deliberately faked the auspices so that it has time to achieve his military countryside and to gain a triumph - which is in fact produced) in 159 before J-Cn he is critic with Marcus Popilius Laenas. During its censure he issued that no statue of the public civils servant can be set up on the forum without public approval of the senate or the people. Between 159-149 davant j-c it is a political adversary of marcus Porcius cato and spoken in favor so that Rome does not destroy Carthage, because it has fears that the destruction of the principal rival of Rome leads to the decline of republican morals. However, as Princeps Senatus, it loses of sound the political influence, when Carthage with fact the war against Massinissa de Numidie, a war which was against the provisions of the treaty of fifty-year signed with Rome (but Greek lawyers considered that they had expired). Reality was that Rome has wanted to destroy Carthage. in 155 before j-c, he is consul. He demolishes the Dalmatian ones one granted a triumph to him. In 150 before j-c, It becomes maximus pontif (after a two years interregnum after the death of the pontiff preceding Marcus Aemilius Lepidus (consul 187 and 175 BEFORE JESUS CHRIST), until its death supposes into 141 before j-c, or it east replaces by his son, in 147 before j-c, it becomes princeps senatus.

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