Itaque, cum secundo Punico bello Cn. Scipio ex Hispania senatui scripsisset, petens ut sibi successor mitteretur, quia filiam virginem adultae iam aetatis haberet neque ei sine se dos expediri posset, senatus, ne res publica bono duce careret, patris sibi partes desumpsit, consilioque uxoris ac propinquorum Scipionis constituta dote summam eius ex aerario erogavit ac puellam nuptum dedit
And so in the Second Punic War, when Cn. Scipio wrote to the senate from Spain asking them to send him a successor because he had an unmarried daughter of adult age and a dowry could not be provided for her without him, the senate took on itself the fathers role lest the commonwealth lose a good general. After settling on a dowry with the advice of Scipios wife and kin, they paid the sum out of the treasury and gave the girl in marriage.
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