Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus

Reading notes

• Consolation to His Mother Helvia §12 Scipio's daughters

  Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus, conqueror of Hannibal; he left his daughters so little that their dowries came from the public treasury.

• Consolation to Marcia §16 Scipio's daughter

  Scipio Africanus, conqueror of Hannibal at Zama; his daughter was Cornelia, mother of the Gracchi. The Scipios are Seneca's byword for Roman greatness exposed to Fortune.

• Consolation to Polybius §14 Scipio Africanus

  Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus, conqueror of Hannibal at Zama; learned of his brother Lucius's death while himself in retirement, having once freed that brother from arrest.

• On Benefits §3.33.1 Scipio

  Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus, who as a youth in the bordered toga rode into battle to rescue his father at the Ticinus (218 BC).

• On Benefits §5.17.2 Scipio

  Scipio Africanus, conqueror of Hannibal, who withdrew in disgust to voluntary exile at Liternum.

• On Benefits §6.36.2 Scipio

  Scipio Africanus, who ended the Second Punic War by defeating Hannibal; cited to show that no good is owed if the danger was wished for the glory of ending it.

• On the Shortness of Life §17.6 Scipio

  Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus, conqueror of Hannibal, later driven into voluntary exile at Liternum by civil strife.

• On Anger §1.11 Scipio

  P. Cornelius Scipio Africanus, who ended the Second Punic War by deliberately carrying the war into Africa rather than chasing Hannibal in anger.

• On Tranquility of Mind §17.4 Scipio

  Scipio Africanus, the conqueror of Hannibal; cited (with Socrates and Cato) for relaxing his 'triumphal and soldierly body' in manly dance.

• Moral Letters to Lucilius §5.51.11 Scipio

  Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus, conqueror of Hannibal, who withdrew in his last years to a plain estate at Liternum rather than to luxurious Baiae.

• Natural Questions §1.17.8 the daughters of Scipio

  The daughters of Scipio Africanus, conqueror of Hannibal; their modest dowry, paid in heavy bronze, is the exemplum of old Roman frugality against modern luxury.