Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—R

Rome's best Wealth is Patriotism

So said Mettius Curtius, when he jumped into the chasm which the soothsayers gave out would never close till Rome threw therein “its best wealth.”

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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