Scipio Aemilianus
Scipio Aemilianus, Publius Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus Africanus (Numantinus),born 185/4 BC as second son of Lucius Aemilius Paullus (consul 182), adopted as a child by Publius Cornelius Scipio, son of Scipio Africanus, as his elder brother was by a Quintus Fabius Maximus. In 168 he fought under Paullus at Pydna (see Rome (history) ยง1.4). Back in Rome, he met Polybius, who became his friend and his mentor in preparing him for a public career. (See esp. Polybius 31. 23 ff.) In 151, though asked by the Macedonians, as Paullus' son, to settle their problems that soon led to the war with the royal pretender Andriscus, he instead volunteered for arduous service as a military tribune under Lucius Licinius Lucullus (consul 151) in Spain, thus persuading others to volunteer. In the fighting he won a major decoration, the corona muralis (for the first man to scale an enemy wall in...
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