Scipio (cognomen)

Scipio (Latin, "stick", plural: Scipiones ) was the surname ( cognomen ) of the most famous branch of the Roman patrician family of the Cornelii that goes back probably to the Cornelii Malugenses. In particular, during the Punic wars against Carthage, several members of the family made ​​a big name. At the end of the Republic Cornelii Scipiones went on in the Cornelii Lentuli, which is also the cognomen Scipio revived in the Imperial period.

Her famous family grave was located on the Via Appia outside the Porta Capena, where their bodies were buried in sarcophagi unburned in underground chambers. This grave was found in 1614 and 1780 completely uncovered (publication of Giovanni Battista Piranesi ). The finds of inscriptions, sarcophagi and statuary came mostly in the Vatican Museums; the oldest Africanus is said to have erected a bust of the poet Ennius eg there.

Known Scipiones were:

  • Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Asina, Roman politician, consul in 260 BC and 254 BC
  • Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Calvus († 211 BC ), Roman general and statesman, consul in 222 BC
  • Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Hispallus, Roman politician, consul 176 BC
  • Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Hispanus, Roman politician, praetor 139 BC
  • Lucius Cornelius Scipio (consul 350 BC )
  • Lucius Cornelius Scipio (consul 259 BC ), Roman politician
  • Lucius Cornelius Scipio ( praetor 174 BC), Roman senator
  • Lucius Cornelius Scipio ( quaestor in 167 BC ), Roman politician and military
  • Lucius Cornelius Scipio asiaticus (consul 190 BC ), Roman politician and military commander
  • Lucius Cornelius Scipio asiaticus (consul 83 BC ), Roman politician
  • Lucius Cornelius Scipio barbatus, Roman consul 298 BC
  • Marcus Cornelius Scipio Maluginensis
  • Publius Cornelius Scipio ( Konsulartribun ), Roman priest, orator and historian, Konsulartribun 395 and 394 BC
  • Publius Cornelius Scipio (consul 218 BC) († 211 BC ), Roman general and statesman
  • Publius Cornelius Scipio ( Augur ), Roman priest, orator and historian, Augur 180 BC
  • Publius Cornelius Scipio (consul 16 BC), Roman senator
  • Publius Cornelius Scipio ( Quaestor ), Roman senator
  • Publius Cornelius Scipio (consul 56 ), Roman consul 56
  • Publius Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus Africanus (185 BC -129 BC ), Roman consul 147 and 134 BC
  • Publius Cornelius Scipio Asina, Roman consul in 221 BC, 217 BC Interrex
  • Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus ( 235-183 BC ), Roman consul 205 BC and 194 BC
  • Publius Cornelius Scipio asiaticus, Roman politician and senator, Suffektkonsul 68
  • Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica, Roman consul in 191 BC
  • Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica ( praetor ), Roman politician, praetor 93 BC
  • Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica corculum, Roman politician and senator, consul 162 BC, censor 159 BC
  • Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica Serapio († 132 BC), Roman senator, Pontifex Maximus 141 BC, consul 138 BC
  • Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica Serapio (consul 111 BC) († 111 BC ), Roman consul
  • Publius Cornelius Lentulus Scipio ( Suffektkonsul 2 ), Roman politician and Senator
  • Publius Cornelius Lentulus Scipio ( Suffektkonsul 24 ), Roman politician and Senator
  • Publius Cornelius Lentulus Scipio ( Suffektkonsul 56 ), Roman politician
  • Servius Cornelius Scipio Salvidienus Orfitus (consul 51) ( † ~ 66 ), Roman senator and politician
  • Servius Cornelius Scipio Salvidienus Orfitus ( Suffektkonsul ), Roman senator and politician
  • Servius Cornelius Scipio Salvidienus Orfitus (consul 110 ), Roman senator and politician
  • Servius Cornelius Scipio Salvidienus Orfitus (consul 149 ), Roman senator and politician
  • Servius Cornelius Scipio Salvidienus Orfitus (consul 178 ), Roman senator and politician
  • Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius Scipio, consul 52 BC
  • Cornelier
Cornelia (gens) Sarcophagus Lucius Cornelius Scipio (consul 259 BC) Lucius Cornelius Scipio Asiaticus (consul 83 BC)
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