Which Scipio?
The record files by NAME; history happens to MEN. This desk holds one room per discriminated identity — era, family, career, and the register entries behind him — with the uncertainty stated where the tradition itself is the only ground. Where a name has many bearers, they stand here side by side. receipt — the person layer
A pilot slice: 26 identities under 15 names (7 of them shared by more than one man). The record's fifteen hundred figure drawers reach far beyond it; a name missing here is a fact about the desk, not about the past.
- 324–261 BCE Antiochus I Soter Seleucus' son, lovesick for his stepmother Stratonice — the Antiochus of Plutarch's famous diagnosis scene.
- c. 241–187 BCE Antiochus III the Great The Seleucid king who fought Rome to the treaty of Apamea — the man behind the record's largest misfile: 683 mentions of 'Antiochus' filed as a place.
- c. 125–68 BCE Antiochus of Ascalon The Academic philosopher whose lectures charmed Cicero at Athens — no king at all, though he shares the kings' drawer.
- fl. 451–449 BCE Appius Claudius (the decemvir) The decemvir of the Twelve Tables whose lust for Verginia brought the decemvirate down — served as Livy tells it, with early-Rome's honest wobble.
- 10 BCE – 54 CE Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus The fourth emperor: found behind a curtain and made princeps, dead of a disputed mushroom — one bearer of Rome's oldest patrician name.
- c. 275–203 BCE Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus The Delayer: dictator after Trasimene, whose caution wore Hannibal down — the man the curated 'fabius' drawer names, though the drawer holds his whole gens.
- fl. 216 BCE Quintus Fabius Pictor Rome's first historian: the senator sent to Delphi after Cannae, cited by Livy as the oldest authority and audited by Polybius for partiality.
- fl. under Nero Fabius Rusticus Nero's historian: Tacitus' named source, partial to his patron Seneca — a Fabius the record's drawers never minted at all.
- c. 46 – c. 120 CE Plutarch of Chaeronea (L. Mestrius Plutarchus) The biographer himself — whose name the record's figure drawer gives to another man entirely, the tyrant of Eretria he wrote about.
- fl. 350–348 BCE Plutarch of Eretria The tyrant of Eretria who begged Athens' help and then charged too soon — the man the figure drawer actually holds.
- 185–129 BCE Publius Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus Africanus The second Africanus: Aemilius Paulus' son adopted into the Scipios, Polybius' pupil, the destroyer of Carthage.
- c. 236–183 BCE Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus The first Africanus: the conqueror of Hannibal at Zama, whose name the record's 'scipio' and 'africanus' drawers share with four other men.
- fl. 190 BCE Lucius Cornelius Scipio Asiaticus Africanus' brother, victor over Antiochus at Magnesia — the Scipio whose own surname wobbles in the record.
- d. c. 141 BCE Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica Corculum The Nasica of Pydna and of 'Carthage must be spared' — one bearer of a cognomen three generations deep, told apart here by the tradition's standard identification.
- fl. 42–69 CE Gaius Suetonius Paulinus The general: Britain's governor against Boudicca, Otho's field commander — PIR S 694, one entry above the biographer.
- c. 70 – after 122 CE Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus The biographer of the Caesars — PIR S 695, printed directly beneath the general who shares his name.
- c. 460 – c. 400 BCE Thucydides son of Olorus The historian of the war — PA 7267, son of Olorus, of Halimous; the drawer that carries his name also holds Pericles' rival.
- fl. 440s BCE Thucydides son of Melesias Pericles' aristocratic opponent — PA 7268, of Alopece; not the historian, and the record itself says so.
The record here: 166 works · 12,119 episodes served · the desk cites PIR, Prosopographia Attica and Smith page-anchored and short · dprr alignment reserved, nothing fetched