Manius Curius Dentatus

The gold of the Samnites, or the answer of Manius Curius?

What did the self-restraint of Gaius Fabricius, what did the frugal fare of Manius Curius, have in view?

Let Manius Curius come to life again, or some one of those men in whose villa and home there was nothing splendid, nothing ornate except themselves, and let him see a man who has enjoyed the highest favours of the people fishing little bearded mullets out of his pond and fingering them and boasting of his store of lampreys — would he not judge this man so very a slave that he would not think him w …

Marcus Cato, while he praised Curius and Coruncanius and that age in which it was a charge for the censor's reproof to own a few small plates of silver, himself possessed four million sesterces—less, no doubt, than Crassus, but more than Cato the Censor.