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Curtius, Manlius

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Curtius, Manlius

In Roman mythology, a citizen of Rome who rode his horse into a large chasm in the Forum, which immediately closed over him.

The chasm was said to appear in 362 BC. The soothsayers announced that it could only be closed by throwing into it ‘Rome's greatest treasure’, whereupon Curtius proclaimed that there was no greater treasure than a good citizen and offered himself.



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