Cu'rio2. C.ScriboniusCurio, praetor in B. C. 121, the year
of C. Gracchus's death, was one of the most distinguished orators of his time. Cicero mentions
one of his orations for Ser. Fulvius, who was accused of incest, and states, that when a young
man he thought this oration by far the best of all extant orations; but he adds, that
afterwards the speeches of Curio fell almost into oblivion. He was a contemporary of C. Julius
Caesar Strabo, Cotta, and Antonius, and against the last of these he once spoke in the court
of the centumviri for the brothers Cossus. (Cic. Brut. 32, de Invent. 1.43, de Orat. 2.23, 33; Schol. Bob. in Argum.
Orat. in Clod. et Curion.; Pseud.-Cic. ad Herenn. 2.20; Plin. Nat. 7.41.)