• Curio, the banished Tribune, who, fleeing to Cjesar’s camp on the Rubicon, urged him to advance upon Rome. Lucan, Pharsalia , I , Rowe’s Tr. :⁠— “To Caesar’s camp the busy Curio fled; Curio, a speaker turbulent and bold, Of venal eloquence, that served for gold, And principles that might be bought and sold. ⋮ To Caesar thus, while thousand cares infest, Revolving round the warrior’s anxious breast, His speech the ready orator addressed. ⋮ ‘Haste, then, thy towering eagles on their way; When fair occasion calls, ’tis fatal to delay.’ ” ↩
• Mosca degl’ Uberti, or dei Lamberti, who, by advising the murder of Buondelmonte, gave rise to the parties of Guelf and Ghibelline, which so long divided Florence. See note 137 . ↩