 What was suspicious was the way in which the Senate responded to the sudden death of a great general.Modern scholars suggest that if Scipio was murdered, it was probably Carbo who was responsible.The Roman historian and senator Cicero, writing several decades later using sources who were close to the late Scipio, named Carbo as the guilty person, but was less certain as to whether Sempronia gave Carbo access to Scipio.. Those believing that Scipio was murdered point to the similar mysterious death of another cousin Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica Serapio who, even though Pontifex Maximus, had been sent off to Asia Minor by the Senate, and who died mysteriously in Pergamum in 132 BC.