Publius Cornelius Scipio
Roman general and statesman (died 211 BC)
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Lived -255–-211, aged 44
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The Roman consul who chased Hannibal across the Rhône, got there too late, then spent years bleeding Carthage in Spain — until desertion and a bribed alliance killed him and his brother in the same campaign season that turned the Second Punic War's western front into a family grave.
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Publius Cornelius Scipio served as consul in 218 BC, the first year of the Second Punic War, tasked with confronting Hannibal in Iberia. Sailing from Pisa, he stopped at Massalia to resupply and discovered Hannibal had already crossed the Rhône; by the time Scipio disembarked and marched, Hannibal was gone. He sent his brother Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Calvus on to Spain with the army and returned to Italy, where he was defeated and severely wounded in a cavalry clash near the Ticinus, then watched the disaster at Trebia in December when his fellow consul allegedly ignored his advice. The Roman…
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