Gaius Curtius Philo

According to the historian Livy, both he and his colleague in office, Marcus Genucius, unsuccessfully opposed the law of the tribune Gaius Canuleius which allowed intermarriage between patricians and plebeians.

He then presided over the elections of the first ever consular tribunes, only to have them invalidated by committing a mistake in the taking of the auspices.

[2][3] The oldest sources, as reported by Livy (in turn probably following Licinius Macer) and Cassiodorus, seem to have preserved his family name as "Curiatius", but most later authors rendered it as "Curtius", a name borne by no other Republican-era consul.

[3][1] Finally, Curiatius's surname is found as Philo in the Chronograph of 354 and Chilo (Χίλων Chilon) in Diodorus.

After lightning had struck the site, the Senate decreed that the area be fenced, which was done by Curiatius as consul.