Caius Curio

Family: Roman · Role: tribune · First appears: Julius Caesar 29

Life events

Julius Caesar secured Aemilius Paulus and Caius Curio as defenders through an immense bribe.(Julius Caesar 29)
- With: Julius Caesar Aemilius Paulus
- “Caesar, by means of an immense bribe, engaged in his defence Aemilius Paulus, the other consul, and Caius Curio, the most violent of the tribunes.”
Caius Curio fell during the civil war.(Julius Caesar 36 · 📍 Africa)
- “Caius Curio fell in Africa”
Cneius Pompey resumed declaiming to prepare arguments against Caius Curio.(Rhetoricians 1)
- With: Pompey
- “Some historians state that Cneius Pompey resumed the practice of declaiming even during the civil war, in order to be better prepared to argue against Caius Curio”
Caius Curio was entrusted with defending Caesar.(Rhetoricians 1)
- With: Julius Caesar
- “to whom the defence of Caesar was entrusted”

patron: Julius Caesar “Caesar, by means of an immense bribe, engaged in his defence Aemilius Paulus, the other consul, and Caius Curio, the most violent of the tribunes.”
protégé: Julius Caesar “Caesar, by means of an immense bribe, engaged in his defence Aemilius Paulus, the other consul, and Caius Curio, the most violent of the tribunes”

rivals with Pompey “Some historians state that Cneius Pompey resumed the practice of declaiming even during the civil war, in order to be better prepared to argue against Caius Curio, a young man of great talents, to whom the defence of Caesar was entrusted.”
protégé: Julius Caesar (Curio is described as defending Caesar.) “Some historians state that Cneius Pompey resumed the practice of declaiming even during the civil war, in order to be better prepared to argue against Caius Curio, a young man of great talents, to whom the defence of Caesar was entrusted.”

Extracted from the original text of The Lives of the Twelve Caesars. Made with Rho MD.