haud secus, amisso tigris si concita fetu emicet, attonitae paucis lustratur in horis Caucasus et saltu tramittitur alite Ganges, donec fulmineo partus vestigia cursu colligat et rabiem prenso consumat in hoste.
So, when a tigress has lost her cub and dashes forth in pursuit, the distracted beast traverses the whole Caucasus in a few hours and takes a flying leap over the Ganges, until her lightning speed finds the footprints of her young one; then she catches her enemy and wreaks all her fury upon him.
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