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XIV. CURTIUS NICIA was the intimate friend of Cneius Pompeius and
Caius Memmius; but having carried notes from Memmius to Pompey's
wife [878], when she was debauched by Memmius, Pompey was
indignant, and forbad him his house. He was also on familiar terms
with Marcus Cicero, who thus speaks of him in his epistle to
Dolabella [879]: "I have more need of receiving letters from you,
than you have of desiring them from me. For there is nothing going
on at Rome in which I think you would take any interest, except,
perhaps, that you may like to know that I am appointed umpire
between our friends Nicias and Vidius. The one, it appears, alleges
in two short verses that Nicias owes him (517) money; the other,
like an Aristarchus, cavils at them. I, like an old critic, am to
decide whether they are Nicias's or spurious."
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It is reported that he was immoderately addicted to venery. [For he
is said to have had obscene pictures so disposed in a bedchamber
lined with mirrors, that, whichever way he looked, lascivious
images might present themselves to his view.] [971] He lived for
the most part in the retirement of his farm [972], on the confines
of the Sabine and Tiburtine territories, and his house is shewn in
the neighbourhood of a little wood not far from Tibur. Some Elegies
ascribed to him, and a prose Epistle apparently written to commend
himself to Mecaenas, have been handed down to us; but I believe
that neither of them are genuine works of his; for the Elegies are
commonplace, and the Epistle is wanting in perspicuity, a fault
which cannot be imputed to his style.
It is reported that he was immoderately addicted to venery. [For he
is said to have had obscene pictures so disposed in a bedchamber
lined with mirrors, that, whichever way he looked, lascivious
images might present themselves to his view.] [971] He lived for
the most part in the retirement of his farm [972], on the confines
of the Sabine and Tiburtine territories, and his house is shewn in
the neighbourhood of a little wood not far from Tibur. Some Elegies
ascribed to him, and a prose Epistle apparently written to commend
himself to Mecaenas, have been handed down to us; but I believe
that neither of them are genuine works of his; for the Elegies are
commonplace, and the Epistle is wanting in perspicuity, a fault
which cannot be imputed to his style.
XIV. CURTIUS NICIA was the intimate friend of Cneius Pompeius and
Caius Memmius; but having carried notes from Memmius to Pompey's
wife [878], when she was debauched by Memmius, Pompey was
indignant, and forbad him his house. He was also on familiar terms
with Marcus Cicero, who thus speaks of him in his epistle to
Dolabella [879]: "I have more need of receiving letters from you,
than you have of desiring them from me. For there is nothing going
on at Rome in which I think you would take any interest, except,
perhaps, that you may like to know that I am appointed umpire
between our friends Nicias and Vidius. The one, it appears, alleges
in two short verses that Nicias owes him (517) money; the other,
like an Aristarchus, cavils at them. I, like an old critic, am to
decide whether they are Nicias's or spurious."
It is reported that he was immoderately addicted to venery. [For he
is said to have had obscene pictures so disposed in a bedchamber
lined with mirrors, that, whichever way he looked, lascivious
images might present themselves to his view.] [971] He lived for
the most part in the retirement of his farm [972], on the confines
of the Sabine and Tiburtine territories, and his house is shewn in
the neighbourhood of a little wood not far from Tibur. Some Elegies
ascribed to him, and a prose Epistle apparently written to commend
himself to Mecaenas, have been handed down to us; but I believe
that neither of them are genuine works of his; for the Elegies are
commonplace, and the Epistle is wanting in perspicuity, a fault
which cannot be imputed to his style.
It is reported that he was immoderately addicted to venery. [For he
is said to have had obscene pictures so disposed in a bedchamber
lined with mirrors, that, whichever way he looked, lascivious
images might present themselves to his view.] [971] He lived for
the most part in the retirement of his farm [972], on the confines
of the Sabine and Tiburtine territories, and his house is shewn in
the neighbourhood of a little wood not far from Tibur. Some Elegies
ascribed to him, and a prose Epistle apparently written to commend
himself to Mecaenas, have been handed down to us; but I believe
that neither of them are genuine works of his; for the Elegies are
commonplace, and the Epistle is wanting in perspicuity, a fault
which cannot be imputed to his style.
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