Lucius Cornelius Scipio (consul 259 BC)

As consul in 259 BC, he led the Roman fleet in the capture of Aleria and then Corsica, but failed against Olbia in Sardinia.

The Fasti Triumphales record that he was awarded a triumph, but two other inscriptions on his career do not mention it.

[1] He later dedicated a temple to the Tempestates, locating it near the Porta Capena.

Fragments of his sarcophagus were discovered in the Tomb of the Scipios and are now in the Vatican Museums.

They preserve his epitaph, written in Old Latin: which has been transcribed and restored in modern upper- and lower-case script as:[2] and also transcribed in classical Latin as:[3] A translation is:[4] This inscription is number two of the elogia Scipionum, the several epitaphs surviving from the tomb.