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  Scipio - LoveToKnow 1911
Scipio, on landing at the mouth of the Ebro, was thus enabled to surprise and capture New Carthage, the headquarters of the Carthaginian power in Spain.
Publius Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus Africanus, the younger (185-129 B.C.), was the younger son of L. Aemilius Paullus, the conqueror of Macedonia.
Scipio himself, though not in sympathy with the extreme conservative party, was decidedly opposed to the schemes of the Gracchi (whose sister Sempronia was his wife).
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 Scipio Africanus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Scipio (L., rod or staff) was born in 236 BC in Rome into the Scipio branch of the Cornelii family.
Scipio was the elder son of Publius Cornelius Scipio, praetor and consul, by his wife Pomponia, who was apparently of a prominently knightly and plebian family.
Scipio landed at the mouth of the Ebro and was able to surprise and capture Carthago Nova, the headquarters of the Carthaginian power in Hispania.
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 Scipio Aemilianus Africanus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In the early operations of the war, which went altogether against the Romans, Scipio Aemilianus, though a subordinate officer, distinguished himself repeatedly, and in 147 he was elected consul, while yet under the legal age, in order that he might hold the supreme command.
Scipio Aemilianus himself, though not in sympathy with the extreme conservative party, was decidedly opposed to the schemes of the Gracchi (whose sister Sempronia was his wife).
Lucius Calpurnius Piso Frugi and Publius Mucius Scaevola
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 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Scipio
Scipio Africanus Major SCIPIO AFRICANUS MAJOR [Scipio Africanus Major] (Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus), 236-183 BC, Roman general, the conqueror of Hannibal in the Punic Wars.
He was the son of Publius Cornelius Scipio, and from a very early age he considered himself to have divine inspiration.
Scipio Africanus Crushes Hannibal At Zama And Subjugates Carthage
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 Wikipedia: Scipio
Scipio is a Roman cognomen used by a branch of the Cornelii family.
Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica Corculum, consul 162 BC, 155 BC
Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica Serapio, consul 138 BC
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 P. Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus Africanus Minor (185/4-129 B.C.)
Scipio was the second son of Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus, hero of the Third Macedonian War and son of the consul (of the same name) who fell at the Battle of Cannae in 216.
No doubt Scipio was oppressed by the thought of the responsibility that he would have on becoming the head of the great house of the Scipios (it is uncertain when his adoptive father, Publius Scipio, died) as well as in representing the Aemilii.
Scipio took with him to Spain a number of volunteers and a corps of 500 friends and dependents as a kind of bodyguard (an embryonic praetorian cohort): these were perhaps all the more necessary because his first task was to rediscipline the Roman troops in Spain, who were in a shocking state.
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 Sempronia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Sempronian Gracchus was the daughter of Cornelia Cornelius and Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus the Elder and the sister of Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus the Younger and Gaius Sempronius Gracchus.
Publius Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus, in Spain at the time of the murders but often connected to the deed, publicly condoned the assassinations.
Publius Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus replied that Tiberius Gracchus was justly slain.
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 YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> de:Scipio   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Scipio (plural, Scipiones) is a Roman cognomen used by a branch of the Cornelii family.
Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica Serapio, consul 111 BC
In music, the march from the opera Scipio by George Frideric Handel is the regimental slow march of the British Grenadier Guards.
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 BookRags: Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus Minor Biography
The second son of Lucius Aemilius Paullus, Scipio was adopted by Publius Cornelius Scipio, son of Scipio Africanus Major, and married Sempronia, sister of the Gracchus brothers.
Scipio distinguished himself in single combat with a Spanish horseman, won the mural crown, and negotiated the surrender of the city of Intercatia.
Scipio, though liberal in culture and a great admirer of Greek literature and learning, was basically a political conservative who vigorously supported senatorial control of the constitution and Roman dominion in the provinces.
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 Cornelius   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Lucius Cornelius Scipio later commanded the armies against Antiochus III of Syria and defeated him at the Battle of Magnesia.
Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus Major had one sons; Publius Cornelius Scipio who would inevitably infuriated Rome and be expelled from the Senate.
Although Scipio Aemilianus publicly 'condoned' the murder, he was spared from complicity because he had not yet returned from Spain.
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 Cornelius
Publius Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus Aficanus Numantinus[?] (Scipio the Younger)
Gaius Cornelius[?], quaestor for Pompey, tribune 67 BC
Pope Cornelius was pope from 251 to 253.
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 The Scipio Legacy
Cornelius Scipio was born 236 BC (518 AUC by Roman reckoning) to a father of the same name.
The elder daughter married her cousin, P. Cornelius Scipio Nasica Corculum, and the younger Cornelia was the mother of the brothers Gracchi.
Cornelius Aemilianus Africanus Numantinus (the younger) was born in 185 BC to Lucius Aemilius Paullus.
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 Cornelia20   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus Major had only one sons; Publius Cornelius Scipio  who would inevitably infuriated Rome and be expelled from the Senate.
Although Scipio Aemilianus publicly 'condoned' the murder, he was spared from complicity simply because he had not yet returned from Spain.
The Scipios are a lesser clan within the larger clan of the Cornelii, thus his middle name of Cornelius.
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 Scipio Africanus Minor: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library
Scipio Africanus was well aware of the insatiability and faithlessness of Numidians in matters both human and divine (14.1.4 5...
Scipio, the Roman who was most acutely...of this danger, was known as Africanus, the African, not because he...medieval Europe, slavery was of minor importance there, far less...
SCIPIO AFRICANUS MINOR (Publius Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus Africanus Numantinus), c.185 129 b.c., Roman general, destroyer...fought at Pydna.
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 Scipio   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Scipio was built between 1880 and 1882 by William Denny and Bros., Dumbarton, Scotland, as the iron steamship, Ravenna.
Renamed Scipio, she was abandoned at sea for unknown causes and was salvaged by George P. Walford, who sold her to the Navy on 5 May 1898.
Scipio was retained in ordinary at the New York Navy Yard until surveyed on 31 March 1899 for disposal.
www.history.navy.mil /danfs/s7/scipio.htm   (245 words)

  
 History of the Hellenistic and Roman World
Scipio's grandson by adoption, the son of Lucius Aemilius Paullus, was Publius Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus Africanus Numantius.
Scipio's younger daughter Cornelia was the mother of the Grachii brothers, whose actions were to irrevocably change the face of Roman politics.
Scipio Aemilianus who had been loudly critical of Tiberius would similarly die shortly after, allegedly poisoned by his wife Sempronia, daughter of the younger Cornelia and sister to the Gracchii.
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 Scipio: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library
Publius was the father of the conqueror of Hannibal, Scipio Africanus Major.
Scipio Mainenti of Ferrara initiated the debate...Bracciolini (1380-1459) to explain whether Scipio or Caesar was the greater Roman leader...
Scipio, too, hears the music of the spheres...hover the souls of the dead, among whom Scipio recognizes his own ancestors, and he is...
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 Scipio Africanus Minor - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
SCIPIO AFRICANUS MINOR [Scipio Africanus Minor] (Publius Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus Africanus Numantinus), c.185-129 BC, Roman general, destroyer of Carthage.
He was adopted by the eldest son of Scipio Africanus Major (see under Scipio, family).
On his return to Rome he openly rejoiced at the murder of his adoptive cousin and own brother-in-law, Tiberius Gracchus (Scipio's wife, Sempronia, was sister of the Gracchi), and led the conservatives in attempting to destroy the Gracchan reforms.
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 Search Results for "Scipio"
Scipio Africanus Major, (Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus) (sip´eo afrika´ns) (KEY), 236-183 B.C., Roman general, the conqueror of Hannibal in the Punic Wars....
Scipio, (sip´eo) (KEY), ancient Roman family of the Cornelian gens.
Scipio Africanus Minor, (Publius Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus Africanus Numantinus), c.185-129 B.C., Roman general, destroyer of Carthage.
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 Cornelius - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Publius (or Servius) Cornelius Maluginensis, consul 393 BC and later(?)
The Roman centurion Cornelius is considered by Christians to be the first Gentile convert to the faith, as related in Acts 10.
Cornelius is a Japanese producer and recording artist.
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 Appian's History of Rome: The Punic Wars
Thus in the mouths of all he was proclaimed as the only worthy successor of his father, Paullus, the conqueror of Macedonia, and of the Scipios into whose family he had been received by adoption.
Then Scipio gave another piece of advice, that they ought to fortify a camp on the hither side of the stream, to which they could retreat if they were overpowered, there being now no place where they could take refuge.
Scipio went immediately, but shortly before he arrived Massinissa breathed his last, having charged his sons to obey Scipio in the matter of the division of the estate.
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 SCIPIO1 (" staff ") - Online Information article about SCIPIO1 (" staff ")   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
PUBLIUS CORNELIUS SCIPIO AFRICANUS, the elder (2372--183 B.C.), son of the above.
Hannibal's brother Mago had meanwhile sailed for Italy, and in 206 Scipio himself, having secured the Roman occupation of Spain by the capture of Gades, gave up his command and returtt9d to Rome.
Scipio himself, though not in sympathy with the extreme conservative party, was decidedly opposed to the schemes of the Gracchi (whose See also:
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 Names and Naming Practices of Republican Rome
After Publius Cornelius Scipio defeated Hannibal, he was given the name 'Africanus' and thus became Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus(15).
The consul Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica was given the agnomen Serapio by a certain tribune because of the likeness to a particular dealer in sacrificial victims of that name(16).
Thus, Cornelia Scipio would be the daughter of Publius Cornelius Scipio(19).
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 Search Results for "Scipio"
He was the son of Publius Cornelius Scipio, and from a very early age he considered himself to have divine...
...Roman general, consul in 190 B.C. He was the intimate friend and companion of Scipio Africanus Major from youth, and he held command under him in numerous campaigns....
Scipio Africanus Minor at Numantia and under Quintus Metellus against Jugurtha.
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 Punic Wars
It may be somewhat surprising to the student that neither Scipio nor Hannibal participated in the decisive battle of the Punic Wars.
Scipio continued to defeat the remaining Carthaginian forces in Spain led by Hannibal's remaining brother, Mago, and Hasdrubal Gisco.
Scipio was no Varro and his army was much better trained than the Roman levies of 14 years previous.
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 Scipio Africanus Minor
Scipio Africanus Minor (Publius Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus Africanus Numantinus), c.185–129 B.C., Roman general, destroyer of Carthage.
Carthage, ancient city, N Africa: The Punic Wars and the Decline of Carthage - The Punic Wars and the Decline of Carthage In the 3d cent.
Scipio - Scipio, ancient Roman family of the Cornelian gens.
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 The Roman Father; roman history, roman civilization   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Publius Cornelius Scipio, for example, was called Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus after he defeated Hannibal at Zama in 202.
Lucius Cornelius Sulla (note, same gens as Scipio Africanus) called himself Felix (Lucky) after he defeated Cinna on his return from the Mithradatic wars.
That son, became Publius Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus, and was himself honored with the additional cognomen "Numantianus," after defeating the city of Numantia and completing Roman control of Spain.
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