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He
was consul in 218, the first year of the Second Punic war. He sailed
with army from Pisa to Massilia to try to block Hannibal's advance to
Italy. Failing to meet him, he returned by sea to Cisalpine Gaul, but
sent his army on to Spain under command of his brother, Gnaeus. In
Italy he advanced to met Hannibal. In a cavalry engagement in the Po he
was defeated and wounded (Ticinus). Again, in December, he saw defeat
of the Roman army on the Trebia, under T. Sempronius Longus. He
returned to Spain and defeated the Carthagianians until 212 or 211,
when he was defeated and killed.
His son, also bearing the same name, went on to utlimately defeat Hannibal at Zama and was honored as Scipio Africanus. |
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