Person — one identity, discriminated; every claim below carries its ground or says it has none

Publius Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus Africanus

185–129 BCE · dates conventional · identity secure receipt — the person layer

The second Africanus: Aemilius Paulus' son adopted into the Scipios, Polybius' pupil, the destroyer of Carthage.

Who he is — which bearer of the name; the grounds are named

Smith's SCIPIO article, no. 21: Aemilianus, the younger son of L. Aemilius, adopted a Scipio. secure

P. Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus Africanus MINOR, was the younger son of L. Aemilius Smith, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. III, p. 748 cited, never reprinted — the apparatus shelf

The Republic's digital register (DPRR, the Broughton-backed graph at romanrepublic.ac.uk) is the alignment authority this row awaits; its license could not be verified in writing when this wave was curated, so the dprr_uri column stands reserved and empty — an identity convention, not an ingested claim. Smith's Dictionary stands referee meanwhile, page-anchored.

How to tell him apart — the record confusing and un-confusing its own names; doors to the other men

The name he inherited by adoption he earned again by his own exploits — Smith keeps the two Africani apart. secure

The surname of Africanus, which he had inherited by adoption from the conqueror of Hannibal, had been now acquired by him by his own exploits. Smith, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. III, p. 749 cited, never reprinted — the apparatus shelf

the other man: Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus

The career — offices and deeds as the record states them

At burning Carthage he grips his tutor's hand and fears for Rome. secure

he immediately turned round and grasped me by the hand and said: “O Polybius, it is a grand thing, but, I know not how, I feel a terror and dread, lest some one should one day give the same order about my own native city. Plb. 39.5 The Histories · Polybius

the deed: destruction of Carthage

Doors — where this identity stands in the house

the record's drawer

his name's drawer, shared with his homonyms — the counts belong to the name, not the man. Africanus, the figure — 63 mentions across 48 episodes, counted by the house's first pass.

The name's other bearers — identities sharing ‘scipio’; the desk keeps them apart

Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus — c. 236–183 BCE Lucius Cornelius Scipio Asiaticus — fl. 190 BCE Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica Corculum — d. c. 141 BCE

The record here: 166 works · 12,119 episodes served · identities carry claims, claims carry grounds — episode, page, or an honest open · dprr alignment reserved, nothing fetched

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