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Scipio's D.O.B
Scipio was born June 20, 236 BC and he died in 183 BC (he was 53).
Scipio's Family
The close relationships of the several Cornelii and Aemilii is typical of
the Roman aristocratic order. There were 30 consuls in the Cornelii gens over a
200 year period. Scipio's father, uncle, and father-in-law have been mentioned.
His wife was Aemilia, daughter of Aemilius Paullus. One of his daughters,
Cornelia, married Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus, who was with him in Asia in 190
B.C., and thus was mother to the two famous Gracchi brothers. This T. S.
Gracchus was the son of the T. S. Gracchus who was master of the horse after
Cannae, victor over Hanno in 214, and proconsul killed at Lucania in 212.
Scipio's other daughter, also Cornelia, married Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica
Corculum, who was son of our Scipio's first cousin (Publius Cornelius Scipio
Nasica) the man declared by the Senate to be "the best man in Rome", in 204 to
fulfill the requirement of the oracle at Delphi that "the best man" be the one
to welcome the sacred image of Cybele, which the Romans in their desperation
had obtained from King Attalus of Pergamum.
His eldest son, Publicus Cornelius Scipio, adopted the younger of the first
two sons of his mother's brother, Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus (victor
at Pynda), the conqueror of Macedon, and this Scipio - Aemilianus, Publius
Cornelius, the Younger (185 - 129) was the final destroyer of Carthage in the
Third Punic War, gaining the surname Africanus as well. He married Sempronia,
sister of the Gracchi.