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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).

Mentioned in 11 works (44 total)

For Lucius Murena speeches · 4 mentions

For Publius Sulla speeches · 2 mentions

For Publius Sestius speeches · 2 mentions

Ad Atticum 4.15 letters · 2 mentions

On the Laws philosophy · 2 mentions

Brutus rhetoric · 2 mentions

Stoic Paradoxes philosophy · 8 mentions

On the Nature of the Gods philosophy · 2 mentions

Tusculan Disputations philosophy · 2 mentions

Cato the Elder, On Old Age philosophy · 10 mentions

Laelius, On Friendship philosophy · 6 mentions