<P> Scipio and Aemilia Paulla also had two surviving daughters . The elder, Cornelia Africana Major, married her second cousin Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica Corculum (son of the consul of 191 BC who was himself son of Scipio's elder paternal uncle Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Calvus). This son - in - law was a distinguished Roman in his own right . He became consul (abdicating or resigning in 162 BC for religious reasons, then being re-elected in 155 BC), censor in 159 BC, Princeps Senatus, and died as Pontifex Maximus in 141 BC . Scipio Nasica rose to many of the dignities enjoyed by his late father - in - law, and was noted for his staunch (if ultimately futile) opposition to Cato the Censor over the fate of Carthage from about 157 to 149 BC . They had at least one surviving son (of whom more below). </P> <P> The younger daughter was more famous in history; Cornelia Africana Minor, the young wife of the elderly Tiberius Gracchus Major or Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus, tribune of the plebs, praetor, then consul 177 (then censor and consul again), became the mother of 12 children, the only surviving sons being the famous Tiberius Gracchus and Gaius Gracchus . All three surviving children of this union were ill - fated; the brothers Gracchi died relatively young, murdered or forced to commit suicide by more conservative relatives . The eldest child and only surviving daughter, Sempronia, was married to her mother's first cousin (and her own cousin by adoption) Scipio Aemilianus Africanus . The couple had no children, and Sempronia grew to hate her husband after he condoned the murder of her brother Tiberius in 132 BC . Scipio's mysterious death in 129 BC, at the age of 56, was blamed by some on his wife, and by others on his political rivals . </P> <P> Scipio's only descendants living through the late Republican period were the descendants of his two daughters, his sons having died without legitimate surviving issue . His younger daughter's last surviving child Sempronia, wife and then widow of Scipio Aemilianus, was alive as late as 102 BC . </P> <P> His other known grandson Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica Serapio was far more conservative than his Gracchi cousins . He and his descendants all became increasingly conservative, in stark contrast to the father and grandfathers . Scipio Africanus's eldest grandson Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica Serapio became consul in 138, murdered his own cousin Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus (163--132 BC) in 132 . Scipio Nasica Serapio, although Pontifex Maximus was sent to Asia Minor by the Senate to escape the wrath of the Gracchi supporters, and died mysteriously there in Pergamum, and is believed to have been poisoned by an agent of the Gracchi . </P>

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