Publius Cornelius Scipio (consul 16 BC)
Publius Cornelius Scipio (b. 48 BC) was a Roman senator active during the Principate. He was consul in 16 BC as the colleague of Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus.[1] Scipio was the son of Publius Cornelius Scipio and Scribonia.[2] He was elder brother to Cornelia Scipio and the elder half-brother to Julia the Elder, the daughter of Emperor Augustus.[3] Scipio claimed to be a descendent of Scipio Africanus and boasted himself about this.
The same year he was consul his sister, Cornelia, died at the age of thirty. The poet Sextus Propertius wrote an elegy of Cornelia for her funeral, praising her family, including Scipio and Scribonia. Scipio is known to have been proconsular governor of Asia, probably around the years 8/7 BC.[4] In 2 BC, Scipio was exiled for unknown reasons although treason, adultery and incest with Julia were the official reasons.
According to Ronald Syme, Scipio had at least two children by an unidentified woman:[5]
- Cornelius Scipio, who was accused of and punished for adultery with Julia the Elder in 2 BC
- Publius Cornelius Scipio, quaestor in Achaea circa AD 2
He may also have been the father of the wife of Lucius Volusius Saturninus.
References
- ↑ Alison E. Cooley, The Cambridge Manual of Latin Epigraphy (Cambridge: University Press, 2012), p. 457
- ↑ Elaine Fantham, Julia Augusti (London: Routledge", 2006), p. 18. ISBN 0-415-33146-3.
- ↑ Fantham, Julia Augusti, p. 19.
- ↑ Ronald Syme, The Augustan Aristocracy (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986), p. 405
- ↑ Syme, The Augustan Aristocracy, p. 59
Further reading
- Robert J. Rowland, Jr., "The Last of the Scipios", American Journal of Ancient History, 7 (1982), pp. 53-68
| Political offices | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by Gaius Furnius, and Gaius Junius Silanus as Ordinary consul |
Consul of the Roman Empire 16 BC with Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus |
Succeeded by Lucius Tarius Rufus as Suffect consul |