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Manius Curius Dentatus
Curius Dentatus
Manius Curius Dentatus (d. 270 BC), three-time consul and conqueror of the Samnites and Pyrrhus, proverbial for frugality; famously received Samnite envoys while cooking his own plain meal at the hearth.
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- Consolation to His Mother Helvia §10 our dictator lived less
M. Curius Dentatus, the frugal Republican hero who, the story goes, turned his cheap food at the fire with the same hand that had beaten the enemy, and spurned the Samnites' gold.
- On Benefits §7.7.5 a Roman general
Manius Curius Dentatus, the frugal hero who, offered as much land as he could plow in a day, refused — 'no need of a citizen who needs more than one citizen's share.'
- On the Shortness of Life §13.3 Curius Dentatus
Manius Curius Dentatus (cos. 290 BC), first to display elephants in a Roman triumph.
- On Tranquility of Mind §5.5 Curius Dentatus
Manius Curius Dentatus (d. 270 BC), the austere Roman general and exemplar of old Roman virtue, quoted for preferring death to a merely nominal life.
- On the Happy Life §21.3 Curius
Manius Curius Dentatus (d. 270 BC), conqueror of the Samnites and Pyrrhus, proverbial for republican frugality.
- Moral Letters to Lucilius §20.120.19 Curius
M'. Curius Dentatus, conqueror of the Samnites and of Pyrrhus, a by-word for the stern frugality of early Rome.