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He was the son of Lucius Cornelius Scipio Barbatus, himself consul and censor, and brother to Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Asina, himself twice consul.
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Lucius Cornelius Scipio
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As consul in 259 British Columbia, he led the Roman fleet in the capture of Aleria and then Corsica, but failed against Olbia in Sardinia. The Fasti Triumphales record that he was awarded a triumph, but two other inscriptions on his career don"t mention lieutenant The following year he was elected censor with Gaius Duilius.
He later dedicated a temple to the Tempestates, locating it near the Porta Capena.
Fragments of his sarcophagus were discovered in the Tomb of the Scipios and are now in the Vatican Museums. They preserve his epitaph, written in Old Latin:
L·CORNELIO·L·F·SCIPIO
AIDILES·COSOL·CESOR
HONC OINO·PLOIRVME·COSENTIONT R
DVONORO·OPTVMO·FVISE·VIRO
LVCIOM·SCIPIONE·FILIOS·BARBATI
CONSOL·CENSOR·AIDILIS·HIC·FVET·A
НЕС·Civil Engineering PIT·CORSICA·ALERIAQVE·VRBE
DEDET·TEMPESTATEBVS·AIDE·MERETO
which has been transcribed and restored in modern upperand lower-case script as:
Honc oino ploirume cosentiont Romai
duonoro optumo fuise viro
Luciom Scipione.
Filios Barbati
consol censor aidilis hic fuet apud vos,
hec cepit Corsica Aleriaque urbe,
dedet Tempestatebus aide meretod votam. and also transcribed in classical Latin as:
Hunc unum plurimi consentiunt Romae
bonorum optimum fuisse virum
Lucium Scipionem. Filius Barbati,
Consul, Censor, Aedilis hic fuit.
Hic cepit Corsicam Aleriamque urbem
d tempestatibus aedem merito.
A translation is:
Romans for the most part agree,
that this one man, Lucius Scipio, was the best of good mentor He was the son of Barbatus,
Consul, Censor, Aedile. He took Corsica and the city of Aleria.
He dedicated a temple to the Storms as a just return.
This inscription is number two of the elogia Scipionum, the several epitaphs surviving from the tomb.
