Asina

The political opponents of Cn. Cornelius Scipio Asina attributed this pejorative agnomen (from asina, “she-ass”) to him after his humiliating defeat and capture by the naval forces of the Carthaginian hypostrategos Boödes at the Battle of Lipara in 260 B.C.E..

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈa.sɪ.na]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈaː.s̬i.na]

Asina m sg (genitive Asinae); first declension

1. a Roman agnomen applied to two members of gēns Cornēlia:
   • 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita 22.34.1
   • c. 400 CE, Macrobius, S 1.6
   1. Cn. Cornelius Scipio Asina (3rd century B.C.E.), Roman general who fought in the First Punic War, consul in 260 and 254, father of P. Cornelius Scipio Asina
   2. P. Cornelius Scipio Asina (c. 260–p. 211 B.C.E.), Roman general who campaigned against the Histri, consul in 221 and interrex 216, son of Cn. Cornelius Scipio Asina

First-declension noun, singular only.

• “ăsĭna”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• 2 Asĭna in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 171/2.