Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius Scipio Nasica
Ancient Roman consul and optimate · Politicians · Lived 99 BC to 46 BC · aged 53
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Something wrong?The last Scipio to matter in Rome, and he died by his own hand at sea rather than face Caesar's men. Born into one aristocratic clan, adopted into another, he threaded his tangled bloodline into a name so long it reads like a pedigree - and bet it all on the wrong side of a civil war.
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Born Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica around 95 BC, he carried the weight of the patrician Scipiones before adoption shuffled him into the plebeian Caecilii Metelli and gave him that sprawling name. He climbed the cursus honorum, the Roman ladder of power, and reached consul in 52 BC, an old-guard conservative who stood against the populist deals of the First Triumvirate. When Caesar's civil war broke, he backed Pompey and the Senate, using his proconsulship in Syria to raise an army. He commanded the centre at Pharsalus, then led the whole force at Thapsus - both crushing defeats. Fleeing by ship after the latter, he was cornered at the naval Battle of Hippo Regius in 46 BC and killed himself rather than surrender, a stoic exit that Seneca later praised.
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