[sect. 2]
Curium: M.' Curius, a Roman knight carrying on a banking business in Patrae. The one letter which we have from him, Fam. 7.29, full as it is of commercial terms, would of itself betray his calling. Fam. 7.28, 30, and 31 are addressed to him.
ad se, to his house.
omnes Graeci : cf. Q.fr. 1.2.4 Graecorum ingenia ad fallendum parata; [gap in text] pertaesum est (eorum) levitatis adsentationis, animorum non officiis, sed temporibus servientium.
sumptu: the contracted form for the dative in the fourth decl. seems to occur most frequently in poetry and in post-Augustan prose, although it is found occasionally in the prose of both Caesar and Cicero; cf. Neue, Formenlehre, 1.2 356-358.