11 disciplinam = morals (lit. teaching).
11-13 After the close of the war Curius had become patronus of the Samnites, and they were bringing the customary offering of clientes.—J. S. R.
Curius parvo quae legerat horto
Ipse focis brevibus ponebat holuscula.
Juvenal, xi. 78-79.
78-79 Plutarch, Cato 2, tells the story. Curius was one of Milton’s
‘Men so poor | who could do mighty things.’—Duff.
79 holuscula (dimin. of hŏlus) = small herbs or vegetables.