Quin etiam tibi si lingua vibrante minanti serpentis cauda procero corpore utrumque sit libitum in multas partis discidere ferro, omnia iam sorsum cernes ancisa recenti volnere tortari et terram conspargere tabo, ipsam seque retro partem petere ore priorem, volneris ardenti ut morsu premat icta dolore.
Moreover, when you see a serpent with flickering tongue, menacing tail, long body, if it please you to cut up both parts with your steel into many pieces, you will see all the parts cut away writhing separately while the wound is fresh, and bespattering the earth with gore, and the fore part turning back and seeking to gnaw itself, that by its bite it may assuage the burning pain of the wound which struck it.
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