Cornelius Scipio Africanus, Publius

CORNELIUS SCIPIO AFRICANUS, PUBLIUS (236-183). Consul in 205 and 194 he defeated Hannibal at Zama in 202 to end the Second Punic War. 

CORNELIUS sciPio, GNAEUS and PUBLIUS (third century). The father and uncle of the elder Africanus they were killed fighting in Spain in the Second Punic War in 211. 

CORNELIUS SCIPIO, PUBLIUS (second century). The son of the elder Africanus and the adoptive father of Scipio Aemilianus his poor health kept him from entering public life. 

CORNELIUS SCIPIO NASicA SERAPio, PUBLIUS (second century). Grandson of the elder Africanus and thus a cousin of the Gracchi and (by his adoption) of Scipio Aemilianus he was consul in 138 and pontifex maximus. As leader of the senate, he led the mob that killed Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus when Gracchus stood for reelection as tribune in 133. He was sent on an embassy to Asia by the senate immediately thereafter to get him out of Rome he died... 

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