Social Commentaries
On the Spectacles, 18 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
Wont to lick the hand of its fearless master, a tigress, sprung, their unmatched glory, from Hyrcanian hills, savagely tore a fierce lion with maddened fang: strange was the thing, unknown in any age! She ventured no such deed what time she dwelt in her deep woods: she is in our midst, and shows more fierceness now.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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