the Scipios
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the two Scipios
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Tusculan Disputations (Latin) · On the Commonwealth (Latin)
Spain would not have seen the Scipios falling for their country in a single war, nor Cannae Paulus and Geminus, Venusia Marcellus, Litana Albinus, Lucania Gracchus.
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Tusculan Disputations
Prominent Roman noble family whose tombs stand at the Capene Gate.
When you go out by the Capene Gate and see the tombs of the Calatini, the Scipios, the Servilii, the Metelli, do you think those men wretched?
Spain would not have seen the Scipios falling for their country in a single war, nor Cannae Paulus and Geminus, Venusia Marcellus, Litana Albinus, Lucania Gracchus.
On the Commonwealth
Roman commanders who died fighting Carthage in the Second Punic War.
nor would the two Scipios have quenched with their own blood the rising conflagration of the Second Punic War;
Consolation to Marcia
The Scipio family, renowned Roman statesmen and generals, named among the blessed souls who receive Marcia's son in the afterlife.
A holy company received him—the Scipios and the Catos, and, among the despisers of life and those set free by poison, your father, Marcia.