Laudator Temporis Acti

Joseph Patrick Christopher, S. Aureli Augustini Hipponiensis Episcopi De Catechizandis Rudibus Liber Unus. Translated with an Introduction and Commentary (Washington: The Catholic University of America, 1926), p. 314 (on 26.11 omnia huius saeculi pompa et deliciae et curiositas interibunt):

Curiositas is used in a good sense in Cicero; cf. Ep. ad Att. II,12,2, sum in curiositate ὀξύπεινος. It is a word of bad repute in the one place in which it occurs in Scripture; cf. Num. 4,20, alii nulla curiositate videant quae sunt in sanctuario. In this latter sense it is found both in patristic and mediaeval writers. Cf. Tert. De Praesc. Haer. 7, nobis curiositate opus non est post Christum Iesum; id. Apol. 25, nam etsi a Numa concepta est curiositas superstitiosa (on which see Mayor's and Souter's note, p. 335); Sanct. Bernard., De Gradibus Humilitatis, 10, primus itaque superbiae gradus est curiositas; Thomas à Kempis, De Imit. Christi, 4,7,2, tam curiosus ad nova audienda et pulchra intuenda.

See also:

• André Labhardt, "Curiositas: notes sur l'histoire d'un mot et d'une notion," Museum Helveticum 17.4 (1960) 206-224
• P.G. Walsh, "The Rights and Wrongs of Curiosity (Plutarch to Augustine)," Greece & Rome 35.1 (April, 1988) 73-85
• Dirk Rohmann, Christianity, Book‐Burning and Censorship in Late Antiquity (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2016), pp. 85-88