this period is significant, for example the nickname Serapio assumed by the two Cornelii Scipiones Nasicae , father and son, consules respectively in 138 and 111 B.C. Apart from this, practically [...] explained by the parallel success among the aristocratic exponents (as, for example, the Cornelii Scipiones Nasicae or Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius ). They only show that the phenomenon was politicized

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