Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica

Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica (meaning "Scipio with the pointed nose") was the son of Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Calvus, consul in 222, who fell in spain in 211 BC.

He is first mentioned by Livy in 204 BC as an inexperienced young men, who was too young to be a Quaestor yet, and sent to Ostia by the Roman Senate to receive the statue of the Idaean Mother which had been brought from Pessinus. Scipio nasica passed the customary Corsus Honorum. In 200 BC he was appointed triumvir to settle new colonists at Venusia; In 196 BC he was appointed to the position of a Curule Aedile, and as a Praetor in 194.

That year he was also assigned as a province Hispania Ulterior where he was said to have fought with great success. Nevertheless, in spite of that and the support of his cousin, Scipio Africanus he failed to be elected as Consul that year and only obtained that position in 191 BC with Manius Acilius Glabrio. During his consulship he defeated the celtic tribe Boii.

Scipio Nasica tried to get elected as Censor in 184 BC but was defeated by Marcus Porcius Cato. In 183 and 182 BC he was engaged as one of the triumviri in settling a Latin colony at Aquileia. He is last mentioned in 171 BC as one of the advocates appointed by the Hispania deputies to bring to trial the Roman governors who had oppressed them.

Source

• Smith, William. A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: J. Murray, 1876, a work that is now in the public domain.