CURTUS, Rufus Quintus, the celebrated biographer of Alexander the Great. Of his personal history nothing whatever is known with certainty, some fixing his epoch in the Augustan, others as far down as the mediæval age. It is, however, more probable that he flourished somewhere during the first three centuries of the Christian era. His
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work originally consisted of ten books, but the first two of these are entirely lost, and the remaining eight present considerable gaps. The supplements of Freinsheim are the most valuable; and the best modern editions of the text are those of Zumpt, Baumstark and Mitzell.