haud secus, e specula praeceps delatus opaca, subsidens campo summissos contrahit artus, cum vicina trucis conspexit cornua tauri, quamvis longa fames stimulet, leo; nunc ferus alta surgentes cervice toros, nunc torva sub hirta lumina miratur fronte ac iam signa moventem et sparsa pugnas meditantem spectat harena.
So a lion, that has rushed down from a wooded height, crouches down upon the plain and gathers his limbs under him, when he sees hard by the horns of a fierce bull, even though long fasting urges him on; the beast stares now at the starting muscles on the great neck, and now at the savage eyes beneath the shaggy forehead, and watches the bull preparing for action and pawing the dust in readiness for fight.
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