Hunc et incomptis Curium capillis

Utilem bello tulit et Camillum

Saeva paupertas et avitus apto

Cum lare fundus.

Horace, Odes, I. xii. 41-44.

41 Hunc = Fabricius.

42 paupertas = frugality, not poverty (= egestas).

43-44 apto cum lare = with its cottage home to match (apto).—W.

‘Hurrah! for Manius Curius

The bravest son of Rome,