sed post duos aut his amplius menses sic quoque a nobis cito profectum cum quipiam prodidissent de viatoribus mysticae gazae clausis involucris clam ferre thesauros, pernicibus equis insecutus abeuntem, qui facile possent itineris pridiani spatia praevertere, osculo in fauces occupati latronis insilui, humano ioco, gestu ferino, veluti si excussura quemcumque catulorum Parthi colla raptoris pede volatili tigris orbata superemicet.
But after two months or more, when he had hurriedly departed from me still without disclosing his secret, some of the travelling-party revealed that he was secretly carrying treasures of mystic riches in closed cases. Thereupon I chased the runaway with swift horses, easily capable of catching up on the one days start he had had. So I headed off the brigand, threw myself at his throat with a kiss, playing a human prank with the air of a wild beast, just as if a tigress, a tigress robbed of her whelps, were hurling herself with flying feet on the neck of a Parthian to force from him one, no matter which, of the cubs he had stolen.
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