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Lucius Cornelius Scipio Barbatus

Lucius Cornelius Scipio barbatus (or Lucius Cornelius Scipio "the Bearded"), statesman and general Roman , son of Publius Cornelius Scipio barbatus ( consul in 328 BC. ) and father of Cornelius Scipio Cnaeus Asina ( Consul in 260 and 254 BC. ) and Lucius Cornelius Scipio ( consul in 259 BC. ).

It's consul in 298 BC. BC He defeated the Etruscans and the Samnites , and submitted the Lucania.
He was elected censor in 280 BC. AD , the year of his death.

The eulogy inscribed on his tomb is one of the main texts in Latin archaic, which is in the Vatican Museum.

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T. Manlius Torquatus * and M. Fulvius Paetinus then * M. Valerius Corvus II (suffect) ( 299 BC. )	L. Cornelius Scipio with Cn Fulvius Maximus ( 298 BC. )	Q. Fabius Maximus IV and P. Decius Mus III ( 297 BC. )