Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica Corculum (died 141 BC) was a Roman statesman and member of the gens Cornelia.
Corculum was the son of Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica (himself consul in 191 BC), and was thus a first cousin once removed of the Roman general Scipio Africanus. His mother is unknown, but is given by some sources as Caecilia Metella, possibly daughter or other relative of Quintus Caecilius Metellus (consul 206 BC) whose descendants dom...
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Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica Corculum (died 141 BC) was a Roman statesman and member of the gens Cornelia.
Corculum was the son of Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica (himself consul in 191 BC), and was thus a first cousin once removed of the Roman general Scipio Africanus. His mother is unknown, but is given by some sources as Caecilia Metella, possibly daughter or other relative of Quintus Caecilius Metellus (consul 206 BC) whose descendants dominated the consulships in the Late Republic.
In 168 BC Corculum fought under Africanus's brother-in-law Lucius Aemilius Paulus Macedonicus in Macedon. He commanded one of the wings, as described by Livy.
Corculum became consul for the first time in 162 BC but he and his colleague Gaius Marcius Figulus abdicated when something went wrong with the auspices. (Some sources suggest that the retiring consul, Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus, who was Corculum's brother-in-law, deliberately disturbed the auspices to ensure that he would have time to...
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