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.

[B.]

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.

[C.]