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Publius Cornelius Scipio (b. ca. 48/46 BC) was perhaps the son of Publius Cornelius Scipio Salvito
Publius Cornelius Scipio Salvito

Publius Cornelius Scipio ?Salvito? was a consul who lived in the late Roman Republic. He was a member of the Cornelius gens and a relative of Scipio Africanus, the Roman general who defeated Hannibal....
 and Scribonia
Scribonia

Scribonia was the daughter of Lucius Scribonius Libo and Cornelia Sulla . Her brother of the same name was consul and died in 34 BC. She was the second wife of Roman Emperor Augustus and the mother of his only natural child, Julia the Elder....
. He was possibly elder brother to Cornelia Scipio
Cornelia Scipio

Cornelia Scipio or Cornelia Scipionis was the daughter of Scribonia and consul Publius Cornelius Scipio Salvito. She married the censor Lucius Aemilius Paullus....
 and the elder half-brother to Julia the Elder
Julia the Elder

Julia the Elder , known to her contemporaries as Julia Caesaris filia or Julia Augusti filia was the daughter and only natural child of Augustus....
, who was the daughter of Emperor Augustus. It is unknown who Scipio married or if he had any children.

Scipio was consul in 16 BC in the same year that his sister, Cornelia, died at the age of thirty. The poet Sextus Propertius
Sextus Propertius

Sextus Aurelius Propertius was a Latin elegy poet who was born around 50?45 BCE in Mevania and died shortly after 15 BCE.Propertius' surviving work comprises four books of elegy. He was friends with the poets Gallus and Virgil, and had with them as his patron Maecenas, and through Maecenas, the emperor Augustus....
 wrote an elegy of Cornelia for her funeral, praising her family, including Scipio and Scribonia.






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Publius Cornelius Scipio (b. ca. 48/46 BC) was perhaps the son of Publius Cornelius Scipio Salvito
Publius Cornelius Scipio Salvito

Publius Cornelius Scipio ?Salvito? was a consul who lived in the late Roman Republic. He was a member of the Cornelius gens and a relative of Scipio Africanus, the Roman general who defeated Hannibal....
 and Scribonia
Scribonia

Scribonia was the daughter of Lucius Scribonius Libo and Cornelia Sulla . Her brother of the same name was consul and died in 34 BC. She was the second wife of Roman Emperor Augustus and the mother of his only natural child, Julia the Elder....
. He was possibly elder brother to Cornelia Scipio
Cornelia Scipio

Cornelia Scipio or Cornelia Scipionis was the daughter of Scribonia and consul Publius Cornelius Scipio Salvito. She married the censor Lucius Aemilius Paullus....
 and the elder half-brother to Julia the Elder
Julia the Elder

Julia the Elder , known to her contemporaries as Julia Caesaris filia or Julia Augusti filia was the daughter and only natural child of Augustus....
, who was the daughter of Emperor Augustus. It is unknown who Scipio married or if he had any children.

Scipio was consul in 16 BC in the same year that his sister, Cornelia, died at the age of thirty. The poet Sextus Propertius
Sextus Propertius

Sextus Aurelius Propertius was a Latin elegy poet who was born around 50?45 BCE in Mevania and died shortly after 15 BCE.Propertius' surviving work comprises four books of elegy. He was friends with the poets Gallus and Virgil, and had with them as his patron Maecenas, and through Maecenas, the emperor Augustus....
 wrote an elegy of Cornelia for her funeral, praising her family, including Scipio and Scribonia. In 2 BC, Scipio was exiled for unknown reasons although treason
Treason

In law, treason is the crime that covers some of the more serious acts of loyalty to one's sovereignty or nation. Historically, treason also covered the murder of specific social superiors, such as the murder of a husband by his wife ....
 and adultery with Julia are the official reasons. Julia was exiled to Pandateria (modern Ventotene
Ventotene

Ventotene is an island in the Tyrrhenian Sea, off the coast of Campania, Italy. It is the remains of an ancient volcano, and is part of the Pontine Islands....
) and Scribonia went with her. Scipio's date of death is unknown.