Scipio Africanus
Scipio Africanus (the elder), Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus,son of Publius Cornelius Scipio (consul 218 BC), husband of the daughter of Lucius Aemilius Paullus (consul 219), father of Publius Cornelius Scipio (the father of Scipio Aemilianus) and of one other son, and of two daughters, one married to Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus, father of the Gracchi. He was born in 236 BC and is said to have saved his father's life at the battle of the Ticinus in 218 and, as military tribune, to have rallied the survivors of the battle of Cannae (see Hannibal) at Canusium. He was curule aedile 213, and in 210 was appointed by the people to the command in Spain, the first person to have received consular imperium without having previously been consul or praetor. In Spain he resumed the aggressive policy of his father and uncle; in 209 he captured Carthago Nova (mod....
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