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Scipio

29. Cn. Cornelius Scipio Hispallus, the son of No. 28, is mentioned only by Valerius Maximus, who relates (6.3.3), that he had obtained the province of Spain by lot, but was prevented by the senate from going thither on account of the disgraceful life he had previously led.

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.