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    Marcus Licinius Scipio
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    Marcus Licinius Scipio hails from the Scipio family. Being in his late twenties, Scipio is noted for having served in as a Centurion in the Legio V Silicia. His is a distant relative of Gaius Scipio Africanus, the noted archrival of Hannibal the Barbarian of Carthage.

    The Cornelii Scipiones first appear in Roman history in 396 BC in the context of the destruction of Veii by Marcus Furius Camillus, who on being appointed Dictator selected Publius Cornelius Scipio as his "Master of Knights"; that is, his cavalry commander. Scipio subsequently served as military tribune, in essence a general. Already the Scipiones were a distinguished branch of one of the most powerful patrician families - the gens Cornelia. The use of the cognomen dates to the Roman Republic: the kings and their contemporaries had two names only, or earlier one. The first Scipio and the event leading to the branch name remain obscure.
    The family was one of the most distinguished of the republic. At least fifteen members became consuls, some re-elected many times, between 350 BC and 111 BC. Their family tomb, dated to the 3rd century BC and rediscovered in 1780, contained one of the earliest collections of Latin inscriptions, the elogia Scipionum ("inscriptions of the Scipios"), an important historical source for the Roman Republic.
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