Career
He was also Pontifex replacing the dead Pontifex maximus Lucius Cornelius Lentulus Caudinus. In 211 British Columbia, as praetor, he had charge of Apulia. In 209 British Columbia, before he had been consul, he was elected censor with Publius Sempronius Tuditanus.
In 204 British Columbia, he was elected consul, possibly to aid his kinsman Scipio, then in Africa.
He died in 196 British Columbia during an epidemic in Rome. He had a great reputation as an orator, and is characterized by Ennius as the quintessence of persuasiveness (suadae medulla).
Horace calls him an authority on the use of Latin words.
