Gaius Scribonius Curio

Gaius Curio Scribonius ( * 90 BC, † 49 BC) was a politician and a tribune in the Roman Republic.

Curio came from a conservative plebeian family, his father of the same name had been both consul and censor. As a young man Curio belonged to a group of peers to Publius Clodius Pulcher, who tried to draw attention to themselves by their provocative behavior in public. So the young Curio a homosexual relationship with Mark Antony was said. Nonetheless, the young man was also a gifted orator, who was primarily known as a critic of the (first ) Triumvirate.

After the death of Clodius in 52 BC Curio married his widow Fulvia, with whom he had a son. An immense burden of debt that had accumulated on the organization of funeral games in honor of his late father and 53 BC for the construction of a state of the art for that time theater, the young man, forced him to a policy change. He joined his old enemy Gaius Julius Caesar, who promised him financial support, and was a candidate for the office of tribune, where he could serve Caesar's interests. Curio was actually elected with the most votes. As tribune (50 BC) he could prevent by placing his veto that Caesar lost his proconsular office in Gaul. However, Caesar's opponents eventually defied Curios veto and his successor Mark Antony, after both had to flee to Caesar to Ravenna.

In the subsequent civil war succeeded Curio as commander of two legions, to expel the Republican politician Marcus Porcius Cato of Sicily and to occupy the important as a grain supplier island. Then he led a campaign in the province of Africa, where it is first, he managed to beat out an allied army under Optimates and Numidians Juba in Utica I. and Publius Varus Attius, but was lured by these later in a case and in the Battle of the Bagradas went down along with his army.