If he was part of the gens Curiatii, he was the only member of the family to become consul.
In 453 BC, he was consul with Sextus Quinctilius Varus.
[4] Rome was ravaged in that year by a famine and an epidemic, which killed animals as well as people.
It is thought to have been typhus, with the epidemic continuing on for ten or more years.
[5] His colleague, Varus, and Furius Medullinus Fusus, the consul suffect who replaced him, both died of the disease that same year.