Dang

It turns out that one of my favorite words not only exists (it's in the durn dictionary) but it isn't even listed as substandard: Disremember. I did suspicion that it, too, was a Huck Finnism, and turns out that I was right. Of course, 'suspicion' wasn't decried as substandard neither, so this may merely be a case of a refusal to dent the self-esteem of the linguisticly impaired.

Thinking of looking for terms via Google, does anyone know the origin and context of "As goes Rome, so goes the empire"? Google didn't help. Did I just make it up? Or didn't I get it right enuf to get a Google hit?