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Roman general and statesman
Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica
(born 227 BC; fl. 204 – 171 BC) (Nasica meaning "pointed nose") was a
consul
of
ancient Rome
in 191 BC. He was a son of
Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Calvus
.
At the request of the
Senate
, he journeyed with the Roman matrons to receive the statue of
Magna Mater
in 204 when it arrived from
Anatolia
at
Ostia
. According to Livy and Ovid's
Fasti
we are told that he was chosen for this duty because he was the best of the Roman community. He was later
aedile
in 197. As
praetor
in
Hispania Ulterior
(194), he defeated the
Lusitanians
at
Ilipa
, and as consul subjugated the
Boii
.
[1]
He was not chosen as
censor
despite standing in both the elections of 189 and 184, a failure marking the decline of the influence of the Scipiones in Rome. He went on to help found
Aquileia
in 181, and appears in an inquiry of 171.
This Scipio Nasica was the father of the
Scipio Nasica
who opposed
Cato the Censor
for several years on the question of
Carthage
. Both father and son were distinguished jurists; the father was reportedly given a house in the center of Rome by the Senate to make his advice more accessible to the Senate and people of Rome.
He knew the epic poet
Ennius
as
Cicero
reports an anecdote on them.
[2]
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Notes
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- ^
Livy,
36.38
- ^
Cicero,
De Oratore
, ii. 68.