Curius

Nobody did, so I went out to the lictors who were playing bones in a corner of the atrium and ordered the most junior to find Curius and bring him back to the house.

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Curius claimed to have stayed only for part of this discussion before slipping away to pass on the warning to Cicero.

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His acolytes took their places behind him—men like the bankrupt gambler Curius and the immensely fat Cassius Longinus, whose flab occupied the space of two normal senators.

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“Send one of the lictors to find Curius, and tell him I want to see him straightaway.”

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Curius muttered something inaudible, pulled himself free of Quintus, and turned away.

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I jotted a few sentences down and was just returning to Cicero when Curius brushed past me and slipped into my hand a note.

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And when, without promising actual immunity to Curius, he made it clear he would do all he could to show leniency to her lover, she surrendered.

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Fresh lists of possibly sympathetic senators had been drawn up, and according to Curius these now included two young patrician senators, Marcus Claudius Marcellus and Quintus Scipio Nasica.

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Curius swore and lunged toward the consul, but Quintus was on his feet in a moment and blocked his way.

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That night Cicero asked Terentia to speak to her highly placed informant, the mistress of Curius, to try to find out exactly what Catilina meant.

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