person
Gaius Curtius (of Volaterrae)
C. Curtius
also: C. Curtio, C. Curtius, C. Curti
A Roman citizen from or associated with Volaterrae, a close friend of Cicero since boyhood. He lost all his property during the Sullan proscriptions and subsequently settled on a holding in the territory of Volaterrae. Caesar enrolled him in the Senate after the civil war, but his senatorial property qualification was at risk if Q. Valerius Orca distributed the Volaterran land, making Cicero's intercession in Fam. 13.5 especially urgent. Distinct from the Marcus Curtius in the registry.
Reading notes
- Ad Familiares 13.5 §2 I have lived on the closest terms with C. Curtius from boyhood
C. Curtius is otherwise unknown beyond this letter. He had suffered the loss of all his property in the upheavals of the Sullan era and rebuilt his life in the Volaterran territory; Caesar had recently enrolled him in the Senate, making it doubly embarrassing to dispossess a newly minted senator of land in Caesar's own assigned zone.