ante pedes, tergoque graves quas forte gerebat tigridis exuvias in laevam torquet et obstat exsertum obiectans mucronem, inque omnia tela versus et ad caedem iuxta mortemque paratus: ut lea, quam saevo fetam pressere cubili venantes Numidae, natos erecta superstat, mente sub incerta torvum ac miserabile frendens; illa quidem turbare globos et frangere morsu tela queat, sed prolis amor crudelia vincit pectora, et a media catulos circumspicit ira.
He places the piteous body before his feet and twists to the left a huge tigerskin  that he chanced to be wearing on his back, standing square and presenting his drawn sword, facing all weapons and ready alike to die and to kill. So a lioness that has newly whelped, beset by Numidian hunters in her cruel den, stands upright over her young, gnashing her teeth in grim and piteous wise, her mind in doubt; she could disrupt the groups and break their weapons with her bite, but love for her offspring binds her cruel heart and from the midst of her fury she looks round at her cubs.
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