Manius Curius
historical figure · 3 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
M'. Curius
in the texts
On Moral Ends
Legendary austere Roman figure invoked as a contrast to Epicurus's inconsistent rhetoric about pleasure
This pleasure in motion — for so he calls these sweet and, as it were, honeyed pleasures — he sometimes so belittles that you would think Manius Curius was speaking;
On the Commonwealth
Roman statesman and general cited as an exemplary figure of incorruptible civic virtue.
But if one or the other of two ways of prudence must be chosen, yet, even though that quiet manner of life amid the best studies and arts will seem to some the happier, this civil life is assuredly the more praiseworthy and the more illustrious, by which life the highest men are so adorned, as either Manius Curius, 'Whom no one could surpass by steel or gold,' or .
Institutes of Roman Law
Party in the centumviral court case establishing that a testator's intention could imply a vulgaris substitution from a pupillaris one.
Curio dictionem quam castellanos triumphos duos, Brutus 73, ‘I would rather have made the single speech of Lucius Crassus for Manius Curius than have had two triumphs for the capture of fortresses.