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Encyclopedia entry: Scipio Aemilianus
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Scipio Aemilianus (
Publius Scipio Aemilianus Africanus
(
Numantinus
)),
born 185/4 BC as second son of
Paullus
, adopted as a child by Publius Cornelius Scipio, son of
Scipio Africanus
, as his elder brother was by a Quintus Fabius Maximus. In 168 he fought under Paullus at Pydna. Back in Rome, he met
Polybius
, who became his friend and his mentor in preparing him for a public career. (See esp. Polyb. 31. 23 ff.) In 151, though asked by the Macedonians, as Paullus' son, to settle their problems that soon led to the war with Andriscus, he instead volunteered for arduous service as a military tribune under Lucius Licinius Lucullus in Spain, thus persuading others to volunteer. In the ...