interrogata ab alia cur hoc diceret, de principatu cum illi certarent gregis longeque ab ipsis degerent vitam boves, Sit statio separata ac diversum genus; expulsus regno nemoris qui profugerit paludis in secreta veniet latibula, et proculcatas obteret duro pede.
Being asked by another frog why he said this, since those bulls were contending for the sovereignty of the herd and, as cattle, lived their lives at a distance from the frogs, he replied: Granted that their range is remote from ours, and that their species is different, nevertheless, whichever of them is driven from the lordship of the meadow, and takes to flight, will come to the secret recesses of our marsh and will tread us down and crush us with his hard hoofs.
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