Scipio was Princeps Senatus, head of the Senate, at least three times and won a second consulship in 194.  His popularity and reputation were soon marred as a result of accusations of corruption and other charges by political adversaries, most notably Cato the Elder.  Thanks to the influence of his son-in-law, Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus, Scipio's reputation was ultimately saved, but he eventually retired to a small farming estate in Liternum in Campania and died there in 184.  It is said that he ordered his burial at Liternum rather than his family tomb outside the ungrateful city of Rome.