Tali omine in spem sublatus degressusque in urbem largitione amicorum, simul acri ingenio quaesturam et mox nobilis inter candidatos praeturam principis suffragio adsequitur, cum hisce verbis Tiberius dedecus natalium eius velavisset: Curtius Rufus videtur mihi ex se natus.
With such an omen to raise his hopes, he left for the capital, and, thanks to the bounty of his friends backed by his own energy of character, attained the quaestorship, followed'in spite of patrician competitors'by a praetorship due to the imperial recommendation; for Tiberius had covered the disgrace of his birth by the remark: Curtius Rufus I regard as the creation of himself.
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