C. Scribonius Curio, tribune of the plebs…

C. Scribonius Curio, tribune of the plebs in 90 BCE, had later served under Lucius Cornelius Sulla in Greece as a legate in Asia during the campaign to restore the abandoned kingdoms of Mithridates.

He had laid siege to the tyrant Artistion, who had taken position on the Acropolis, during the attack on Athens.

Elected consul in 76 BCE with Gnaeus Octavius, he has come to Macedonia in 75 as Roman proconsul.

He successfully fights the Dardani, the Scordisci, and the Moesi, for which he wins a military triumph.

He is the first Roman general to penetrate to the Danube.