One does not hear much of the patrician Curtii after the time of the early Republic when the noble youth of that name sacrificed himself in the Forum Romanum. A strange chasm had opened up in the Forum pavement and could not be filled in. According to a prophecy, the gap would close only when Rome sacrificed what was most precious to it. The noble Curtius rode his horse into the abyss and the Forum ground closed up again.

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