tum Lentulus urbem, magna ferens mandata, petit; nec Paulus inultum, quod superest de luce, sinit; ceu vulnere tigris letifero cedens tandem proiectaque corpus luctatur morti et languentem pandit hiatum in vanos morsus, nec sufficientibus irae ictibus extrema lambit venabula lingua.
Then Lentulus made off for Rome, carrying his weighty message. Nor did Paulus suffer his last moments to pass without striking a blow. So a tigress when mortally wounded gives way at last and lying down fights against death; she opens the jaws that have no strength to bite in earnest, and the tip of her tongue licks the spears with efforts that cannot gratify her rage.
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