This Scipio is first mentioned in 100 BC, when he took up arms with the other members of the senate against Lucius Appuleius Saturninus.
[1] In the Social War he was stationed with Lucius Acilius in the town of Aesernia, escaping in the dress of slaves during the approach of Vettius Scato.
In this year Lucius Cornelius Sulla returned to the Italian Peninsula, and advanced against the consuls.
He defeated Norbanus in Italy, and convinced the troops of Scipio to desert their general.
He was, however, included in the proscription in the following year, 82 BC, whereupon he fled to Massilia, where he passed the remainder of his life.