innumeris veluti leo forte potitus caedibus imbelles vitulos mollesque iuvencas transmittit: magno furor est in sanguine mergi nec nisi regnantis cervice recumbere tauri.
So a lion who has made countless killings passes by unwarlike calves and soft heifers; his madness is to sink in mighty blood and lie only on the neck of a reigning bull.
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