CURTIUS RUFUS, QUINTUS, biographer of Alexander the Great. Modern authorities regard him as a rhetorician who flourished during the reign of Claudius (A.D. 41-54). His work (De rebus gestis Alexandri magni) originally consisted of ten books, of which the first two are entirely lost, and the remaining eight are incomplete. The work is uncritical, and shows ignor ance of geography, chronology and military matters.
There are numerous editions and an English translation by P. Pratt (182I).