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Gnaeus and Publius Cornelius Scipio
the Scipio brothers
also: Cn. et P. Scipiones, Gnaeus and Publius Scipio
The brothers Gnaeus and Publius Cornelius Scipio, who campaigned and died in Spain during the Second Punic War (211 BC); the father and uncle of Scipio Africanus. Cicero lists them among Roman exempla of greatness of spirit.