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Manius Curius Dentatus
M'. Curius Dentatus
also: M'. Curius, M'. Curio, Curius Dentatus
Censor 272 BC and three-times consul, conqueror of the Samnites and Pyrrhus; as censor he cut a channel through the mountain to drain the Lacus Velinus into the Nar, the engineering work still disputed by Reate and Interamna in Cicero's day (Att. 4.15.5).
Reading notes
- Cato the Elder, On Old Age §55 Manius Curius, after he had triumphed over the Samnites, the Sabines, and Pyrrhus
Manius Curius Dentatus, thrice consul, conqueror of the Samnites, Sabines, and (at Beneventum, 275 BC) Pyrrhus; proverbial for the frugal integrity of the old Roman farmer-statesman.