Servius Cornelius Scipio Salvidienus Orfitus was a Roman senator who lived in the first century AD.
He was a descendant of Orfitus, who was adopted by Servius Cornelius Scipio, an otherwise unknown member of the patrician branch of the Cornelii Scipiones.
"Given his pedigree," observes Brian W. Jones, "it ought to be remarkable that a son of Nero's Orfitus was elevated to the consulship by Domitian early in his reign.
[3] According to Suetonius, he was banished to an island for attempting to overthrow the emperor (molitor rerum novarum), then later executed.
[6] While Jones admits that the comparison with Nerva was "a back-handed compliment in view of that senator's reputation for treachery", he argues that Philostratus meant to be laudatory: "he was not interested in wealth and was indifferent to public affairs."