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Curio and face
The marriages of Fulvia, who commanded troops during the last civil war of the Republic and who was the first Roman woman to have her face on a coin, are thought to indicate her own political sympathies and ambitions: she was married first to the popularist champion Clodius Pulcher, who was murdered in the street after a long feud with Cicero ; then to Scribonius Curio, a figure of less ideological certitude who at the time of his death had come over to Julius Caesar ; and finally to Mark Antony, the last opponent to the republican oligarchs and to Rome's future first emperor.

Curio and King
* 49 BC – Julius Caesar's general Gaius Scribonius Curio is defeated in the Second Battle of the Bagradas River by the Numidians under Publius Attius Varus and King Juba of Numidia.
** August 24 – Caesar's general Gaius Scribonius Curio is defeated in North Africa by the Pompeians under Attius Varus and King Juba I of Numidia ( whom he defeated earlier in the Battle of Utica ), in the Battle of the Bagradas River, and commits suicide.
Curio was killed while fighting for Julius Caesar in North Africa in 49 BC, by the army of King Juba I of Numidia.
He published the Crag and Canyon newspaper, built the King Edward Hotel and the Lux Theatre, and founded the Sign of the Goat Curio Shop, which led to the development of the Luxton Museum of Plains Indians, now the Buffalo Nations Museum.
The book concludes with Curio launching an African campaign on Caesar's behalf, where he is defeated and slain by the African King Juba.

Curio and Juba
This alliance was strengthened during a visit by Juba to Rome where Julius Caesar insulted him by pulling on his beard during accusations Juba made against Caesar, and still further in 50 BC, when the tribune Gaius Scribonius Curio openly proposed that Numidia should be sold privately, and when his wife became Caesar's lover.

Curio and was
The first in the city of Rome was the extraordinary wooden Amphitheatre of Gaius Scribonius Curio ( built in 53 BCE ).
To prevent this occurrence Caesar bribed the plebeian tribune Curio to use his veto to prevent a senatorial decree which would deprive Caesar of his armies and provincial command, and then made sure Antony was elected tribune for the next term of office.
At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Octavius and Curio ( or, less frequently, year 678 Ab urbe condita ).
The area's first newspaper, the Amicus Curio, was started in 1901 by a doctor from Kent, Missouri, with the Stella Enterprise and the Stella Weekly Record established after that.
Gaius Curio pater, consul in 76, was the vigorous chief advocate.
Like Clodius, Curio was very popular with the plebeians.
Dardania was conquered by Gaius Scribonius Curio and the Latin language was soon adopted as the main language of the tribe as many other conquered and Romanized.
Curio was surrounded with the remnants of his troops on a hilltop and died in the fighting.
82 was added to the US government's " Curio and Relic " list with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives ( BATFE ) in February 2007, after an individual wrote a letter to the ATF attaching a letter from a federal museum curator who stated that the vz.
This was only a relative poverty, but it proves the integrity of his father, who obviously did not profit much, if at all, from the proscription period when less scrupulous characters, most notoriously Marcus Licinius Crassus and Gaius Curio pater, made enormous fortunes from the confiscated properties of Sulla's Marian victims.
* Curio, a priest in ancient Rome who was the head of a curia ; see curio maximus
Gaius Scribonius Curio was the name of a father and son who lived in the late Roman Republic.
Gaius Scribonius Curio ( d. 53 BC ) was a Roman statesman and orator.
Curio was noted as a public orator and for the purity of his Latin language.
Curio was tribune of the plebs in 90 BC.
Curio spoke in favor of Publius Clodius Pulcher when he was on trial for violating the rites of Bona Dea.
Gaius or Quintus Scribonius Curio ( d. 49 BC ), was the son of Gaius Scribonius Curio.

Curio and defeated
Curio defeated Varus at Utica, despite the Africans having poisoned the water supply.
He declared war against Caesar, and initially fought and defeated Gaius Scribonius Curio, who was sent against him in 49 BC.

Curio and along
Despite an urgent plea from the Spirit of Rome to lay down his arms, Caesar crosses the Rubicon, rallies his troops and marches south to Rome, joined by Curio along the way.

Curio and with
Gaius Scribonius Curio ( proconsul 75-3 BC ) campaigned successfully against the Dardani and the Moesi, becoming the first Roman general to reach the river Danube with his army.
A list of firearms not covered by the NFA due to their antique status may be found here or due to their Curio and Relic status may be found here ; these lists includes a number of carbines with barrels less than the minimum legal length and firearms that are " primarily collector's items and are not likely to be used as weapons and, therefore, are excluded from the provisions of the National Firearms Act.
According to Cicero, he had a homosexual relationship with Gaius Scribonius Curio.
Finally, on 7 < sup > th </ sup > January 49 BCE, the senate under Lentulus and Marcellus passed the “ final decree ” ( senatus consultum ultimum )< ref > Caesar, < i > B. C .</ i > i. 5 ; the tribunes Antonius and Cassius fled with Caesar's envoy, the younger Curio, from Rome to meet Caesar at Ravenna.
* The yellow billboard for Lizzie's Curio Shop reading " HERE IT IS " with an image of a Model T is based on the Jack Rabbit Trading Post signage in Joseph City, Arizona.
Cicero spoke out against Clodius and Curio, though this did not interfere with their friendship.
Curio built Rome ’ s first amphitheatre, with seating built on a pivot that could move the entire audience, in his father ’ s memory and celebrated games there.
Curio was surrounded with the remnants of his troops on a hilltop and died in the fighting.
Cemented into the facade of the Casa Pelli, there are four copies of grave stone fragments ( discovered in 1842, originals in the Museo del Malcantone in Curio ) with inscriptions in the so-called Alphabet of Lugano.

Curio and all
Their daughter, Fulvia, married the Roman politicians Publius Clodius Pulcher, Gaius Scribonius Curio and Marcus Antonius, all of them considered demagogues.

Curio and men
Through her marriage to three of the most promising Roman men of her generation, Publius Clodius Pulcher, Gaius Scribonius Curio and Mark Antony, she gained access to power.

Curio and on
In 1744, he published his Epistle to Curio, attacking William Pulteney ( afterwards Earl of Bath ) for having abandoned his liberal principles to become a supporter of the government, and in the next year he produced a small volume of Odes on Several Subjects, in the preface to which he lays claim to correctness and a careful study of the best models.
** Curio Bay on the Catlins coast contains many petrified wood examples.
The versions imported from China were built on new semi-auto only frames ; ATF treats them under the law as new guns and not under Curio & Relic exemption.
Encouraged by this success, Curio acted on what proved to be faulty intelligence, and attacked what he believed to be a detachment of Juba's army.
* Curio, gentleman attending on Duke Orsino
At Curio Bay, logs of a fossilized forest closely related to modern Kauri and Norfolk Pine can be seen that grew on Zealandia about 180 million years ago during the Jurassic period, before it split from Gondwana.
Alan Wood on the great bucking mare, Curio.
At Curio Bay, logs of a fossilized forest closely related to modern Kauri and Norfolk Pine can be seen that grew on Zealandia about 180 million years ago during the Jurassic period, before it split from Gondwana.
* Curio ( The Shak ), a character on the television program The Shak
Before the Civil War, Curio was one of the last politicians to call on Pompey and Caesar to make peace.
Encouraged by this success, Curio acted on what proved to be faulty intelligence, and attacked what he believed to be a detachment of Juba's army.
On his return to Basel, Grynaeus, desirous that the services of so promising a scholar should be secured to the university, procured him a situation as tutor in the family of Leo Curio, son of Celio Secondo Curione, well known for his sufferings on account of the Reformed faith.

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