talia dum metuit, nec pugnae fisus in hoste tam rapido nec deinde fugae, suadente pavore, per dumos miser in vicina cacumina quercus repserat atque alta sese occultabat in umbra Hampsicus, insistens tremulis sub pondere ramis.
Then fearing the same fate, Hampsicus had not confidence to engage so active a foe, nor even to fly: urged by terror, the poor wretch had passed through thickets and climbed to the top of a neighbouring oak, where he hid in the thick leafage, standing on boughs that shook under his weight.
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