Curtius Atticus

Curtius Atticus was a wealthy eques of ancient Rome who was one of the few companions whom the Roman emperor Tiberius took with him when he retired from Rome to Capreae in 26 CE.^[1]

We know relatively little of him except that, six years later, in 32 CE, Atticus fell a victim to the machinations of Sejanus, obsessed with controlling those who had access to Tiberius, said to be operating under the "advisement" of Julius Marinus.^[2][3][4][5]

He was supposed by German classical scholar Justus Hermann Lipsius to be the same as the Atticus to whom two of Ovid's Epistulae ex Ponto are addressed.^[6]