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Publius Cornelius Scipio P.f. P.n. Africanus (living circa 211 BC/205 BC-170 BC) was the elder surviving son of Scipio Africanus and his wife Aemilia Paulla. He was chosen flamen dialis and was augur from 180 BC. Little information on him survives other than that he was wealthy, cultivated, erudite, and that he suffered from ill-health like many other Roman noblemen in the Middle Republic.

He adopted as his son and his heir his first cousin Scipio Aemilianus (b. 185 BC) who was probably born Lucius Aemilius Paullus, second and younger surviving son of Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus by his first wife Papiria Masonis. This adoption probably took place after his brother Lucius died childless.