Gaius Curtius Philo

Gaius Curiatius Philo or Chilo ( 445 BC) was putatively one of the two Roman consuls in 445 BC, during the early Republic. According to the historian Livy, both he and his colleague in office, Marcus Genucius, unsuccessfully opposed the law of the tribune Gaius Canuleius which allowed intermarriage between patricians and plebeians. He then presided over the elections of the first ever consular tribunes, only to have them invalidated by committing a mistake in the taking of the auspices.

The authenticity of both Curiatius and his colleague, Genucius, has been doubted. The oldest sources, as reported by Livy (in turn probably following Licinius Macer) and Cassiodorus, seem to have preserved his family name as "Curiatius", but most later authors rendered it as "Curtius", a name borne by no other Republican-era consul. This story is one of the three found in ancient sources explaining the origin of the name, and the only one mentioning Curiatius.