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Curtius is a lunar impact crater that is located in the southern part of the Moon. From the Earth the crater appears foreshortened, making it more difficult to observe detail. Nevertheless, this is a large crater that can be readily found in even small telescopes. Curtius is located within one crater diameter of the still-larger Moretus to the southwest. To the northeast is the smaller Pentland. Curtius is 95 kilometers in diameter and 6.8 kilometers deep. It is from the Nectarian period, 3.92 to 3.85 billion years ago.
The outer rim of Curtius has been softened due to impact erosion, but it retains much of its original structure. Along the north and northwest parts of the rim are a pair of notable outward bulges that ruin the overall symmetry of the crater. There is a small satellite crater, Curtius E, lying across the eastern rim, and a small, bowl-shaped craterlet Curtius A along the southern rim. The interior floor is relatively level, with a low, rounded central peaks near the midpoint. The northern part of the inner wall has extended further into the crater floor than elsewehere, producing a slightly irregular surface. The floor is covered by a number of tiny craterlets, but there are no other impacts of note across the interior.
Curtius is a Belgian beer brewed at the C Brewery, Microbrewery of the Principality, in Liège, Belgium. Its logo is the letter C between two braces.
Usage examples of "curtius".
Decline of letters 344 Epic poetry--Lucan 344 Silius Italicus 344 Claudian 345 Persius, Juvenal 345 Martial 346 History--Velleius Paterculus 346 Valerius Maximus 346 Tacitus 347 Quintus Curtius 347 Rhetoric--Seneca the elder 348 Quintilian 348 Appuleius 349 Philosophy--Seneca 349 The elder Pliny 349 His nephew 350 Grammarians--Macrobius 350 Marcellinus 350 Legal writers--Gains 350 Science and art 351 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
Thrace conquering the Bessi and taking boat rides down the Danubius all the way to the sea, he would have ensured that Curtius was prosecuted himself.
The Pool of Curtius, the sacred trees, Scipio Africanus atop his tall column, the beaks of captured ships mounted on more columns, statues galore on imposing plinths glaring furiously like old Appius Claudius the Blind or looking smugly serene like wily and brilliant old Scaurus Princeps Senatus.
Curtius, who had presided over their election, had not rightly selected his position for taking the auspices.
If Curtius, spurring on his steed, threw himself all armed into a precipitous gulf, obeying the oracles of their gods, which had commanded that the Romans should throw into that gulf the best thing which they possessed, and they could only understand thereby that, since they excelled in men and arms, the gods had commanded that an armed man should be cast headlong into that destruction.