Epigram XXVII. — On a Wild Beast slain by Caesar

The beast which knows not how to yield when pierced with the broad steel, but hurls itself upon the gory spear of a full-armed man, how marvellous the death it suffers from a tiny wound, showing that on the hand alone death's might depends. Men wonder at swift disasters and sudden downfalls and not content to drive its deadly course through the stricken limbs, a single arrow deals two deaths at once. If full many deaths come from one lightning stroke, these wounds also thou mayest deem sent from heaven.