person
Publius Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus
Scipio
also: Scipio
Son of Aemilius Paulus given in adoption into the Scipiones, later destroyer of Carthage. His adoption is why Paulus's own car rode empty at the triumph.
Reading notes
- Consolation to Marcia §13 Scipio
Scipio Aemilianus, son of Paulus given in adoption into the Scipiones (later destroyer of Carthage); his adoption left Paulus's own car riding empty at the triumph.
- Consolation to Polybius §14 Scipio Aemilianus
Scipio Aemilianus, natural son of Aemilius Paulus, destroyer of Carthage in 146 BC; as a youth he saw his father's triumph and his two brothers' funerals together.
- On Anger §1.11 the other Scipio
P. Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus, who razed Carthage (146 BC) and took Numantia (133 BC) by a long, patient blockade rather than assault.
- Moral Letters to Lucilius §3.25.6 Scipio
Probably Scipio Aemilianus (185-129 BC), conqueror of Carthage and the cultivated center of the 'Scipionic circle' with Laelius; named here, with Cato and Laelius, as one of the great Romans whose imagined presence shames a man out of his vices.
- Moral Letters to Lucilius §7.66.13 Scipio
Publius Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus (185--129 BC), who took and razed the Spanish town of Numantia in 133 BC after a long blockade; here the type of the besieger, paired against the brave spirit of the besieged.