Publius Cornelius Scipio (b. 48 BC) was the son of Publius Cornelius Scipio Salvito

Publius Cornelius Scipio Salvito

Publius Cornelius Scipio ‘Salvito’ was a consul who lived in the late Roman Republic. He was a member of the Cornelia gens and a relative of Scipio Africanus, the Roman general who defeated Hannibal....

 and Scribonia

Scribonia

Scribonia was the second wife of the Roman Emperor Augustus and the mother of his only natural child, Julia the Elder. She was the mother-in-law of the Emperor Tiberius, great-grandmother of the Emperor Caligula and Empress Agrippina the Younger, grandmother-in-law of the Emperor Claudius, and...

. He was elder brother to Cornelia Scipio

Cornelia Scipio

Cornelia was the daughter of Scribonia and consul Publius Cornelius Scipio Salvito. She was married twice. Her first husband was Sextus Julius Caesar III. Together they had one son born in 32 BC, named Sextus Julius Caesar IV. Her second husband was the censor Lucius Aemilius Paullus, with whom...

 and the elder half-brother to Julia the Elder

Julia the Elder

Julia the Elder , known to her contemporaries as Julia Caesaris filia or Julia Augusti filia was the daughter and only biological child of Augustus, the first emperor of the Roman Empire. Augustus subsequently adopted several male members of his close family as sons...

, who was the daughter of Emperor Augustus

Augustus

Augustus ;23 September 63 BC – 19 August AD 14) is considered the first emperor of the Roman Empire, which he ruled alone from 27 BC until his death in 14 AD.The dates of his rule are contemporary dates; Augustus lived under two calendars, the Roman Republican until 45 BC, and the Julian...

. Scipio claimed to be a descendent of Scipio Africanus

Scipio Africanus

Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus , also known as Scipio Africanus and Scipio the Elder, was a general in the Second Punic War and statesman of the Roman Republic...

 and boasted himself about this. If his father Scipio Salvito is the son of Metellus Scipio, then his boast is true.

Scipio was consul in 16 BC in the same year that his sister, Cornelia, died at the age of thirty. The poet Sextus Propertius

Sextus Propertius

Sextus Aurelius Propertius was a Latin elegiac poet of the Augustan age. He was born around 50–45 BC in Assisium and died shortly after 15 BC.Propertius' surviving work comprises four books of Elegies...

 wrote an elegy of Cornelia for her funeral, praising her family, including Scipio and Scribonia. In 2 BC, Scipio was exiled for unknown reasons although treason

Treason

In law, treason is the crime that covers some of the more extreme acts against one's sovereign or nation. Historically, treason also covered the murder of specific social superiors, such as the murder of a husband by his wife. Treason against the king was known as high treason and treason against a...

, adultery and incest with Julia were the official reasons. Scipio was married to an unknown women and had his only child, Cornelia Africana, who married an equestian named Aulus Julius Frontinus and had issue.