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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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