Curtius Atticus was a wealthy '' eques'' of

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who was one of the few companions whom the Roman emperor

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took with him when he retired from Rome to Capreae in 26 CE. We know relatively little of him except that, six years later, in 32 CE, Atticus fell a victim to the machinations of

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, obsessed with controlling those who had access to Tiberius, said to be operating under the "advisement" of Julius Marinus. He was supposed by German classical scholar Justus Hermann Lipsius to be the same as the Atticus to whom two of

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's ''

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