continuo praedam cupiens fera saeva cucurrit et miserum curvis unguibus ante levat; verum ubi concreto riguerunt membra timore (nam solitus mentis liquerat ossa calor), tunc olidum credens, quamvis ieiuna, cadaver deserit et lustris conditur ursa suis.
At once, eager for the spoil, the savage beast ran up and, to start with, lifted the poor man in her crooked claws. But when icy fear stiffened his limbs (for the usual vital warmth had left his bones), then the bear, thinking him a rank corpse, abandoned him in spite of her hunger and vanished into her own haunts.
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