Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica Serapio
Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica Serapio (182 or 181 – 132 BC
Career
Nasica's first known public office was that of
Nasica had become praetor by 141 BC, and may have been the Cornelius who in that year was defeated by the Scordisci.[5][6] Around that year, his father died and he was elected to a pontificate in his place.[7] He may have become pontifex maximus in that year, but the specifics of when he was elected to that post are unclear.[8]
His next magistracy was the consulate of 138 BC. During his year, he and his co-consul – Decimus Junius Brutus Callaicus – were charged with investigation into murders. The colleagues also were imprisoned by a plebeian tribune that year due to their refusal to exempt certain persons from the levy.[9]
Killing of Tiberius Gracchus
In 133 BC,
During the elections of that year, Tiberius attempted – in a serious breach of republican norms – to secure consecutive re-election as tribune, "which suggested an unrepublican attempt to seize power", especially when in the context of Tiberius' actions that year which "represented clear contraventions of accepted rules".
In the aftermath of the violence, Nasica was challenged in a legal wager to defend his actions. While the consul Scaevola – a renowned jurist – was proposed as judge, Nasica refused to accept the wager. Shortly thereafter, even though he was pontifex maximus and probably to remove him from the city amid opprobrium, he was sent on an embassy to
Family and personal life
Nasica belonged to a
This Nasica was the father of a largely homonymous son who later achieved the consulship in 111 BC. He was also the great-grandfather of Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius Scipio, the consul of 52 BC.[18]
References
Citations
- ^ Sumner 1973, p. 60.
- ^ Broughton 1952, p. 556.
- ^ Broughton 1951, p. 459.
- ^ Yakobson 2012, citing, Val. Max., 7.5.2.
- ^ a b Badian 2012.
- JSTOR 4435394.
- ^ Broughton 1951, p. 478.
- ^ Eg Broughton 1951, p. 499, noting the year of Nasica's accession to pontifex maximus with a question mark.
- ^ Broughton 1951, p. 483.
- ^ a b c Flower 2010, p. 83.
- ^ Lintott 1992, p. 68.
- ^ Lintott 1992, p. 69.
- ^ a b Lintott 1992, p. 72.
- ^ Lintott 1992.
- ^ Briscoe 1974, p. 129; Badian 2012; Broughton 1952, p. 499.
- ^ Flower 2010, p. 95, citing Val. Max., 5.3.2ext; Plut. Ti. Gracch., 21.
- ^ Badian 2012; Broughton 1951, p. 478; Zmeskal 2009, p. 94.
- ^ a b Zmeskal 2009, p. 94.
Sources
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- Briscoe, John (1974). "Supporters and opponents of Tiberius Gracchus". The Journal of Roman Studies. 64: 125–135. S2CID 163560167.
- Broughton, Thomas Robert Shannon (1951). The magistrates of the Roman republic. Vol. 1. New York: American Philological Association.
- Broughton, Thomas Robert Shannon (1952). The magistrates of the Roman republic. Vol. 2. New York: American Philological Association.
- Flower, Harriet (2010). Roman republics. Princeton University Press. LCCN 2009004551.
- Lintott, Andrew (1992). "Political history, 146–95 BC". In Crook, John; Lintott, Andrew; Rawson, Elizabeth (eds.). The Cambridge ancient history. Vol. 9 (2nd ed.). Cambridge University Press. OCLC 121060.
- Sumner, GV (1973). The orators in Cicero's Brutus: prosopography and chronology. University of Toronto Press. ISBN 0-8020-5281-9.
- Yakobson, Alexander (2012). "Elections, Roman". In Bagnall, Roger S; et al. (eds.). Encyclopedia of Ancient History. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 978-1405179355.
- Zmeskal, Klaus (2009). Adfinitas (in German). Vol. 1. Passau: Verlag Karl Stutz. ISBN 978-3-88849-304-1.