On the Spectacles, 22 (Ker)

While in fear the trainers were goading a rhinoceros, and long was the great beast's wrath gathering strength, all despaired of the conflict of the promised war; yet at length the fury, known erewhile, returned. For a heavy bear he tossed with his double horn, even as a bull hurls dummies heavenward, and with as sure an aim as that wherewith the stout right hand of Carpophorus, as yet young, levels the Noric hunting-spear. That beast, agile with pliant neck, stood up against (?) a pair of steers, to him yielded the fierce buffalo and bison; a lion in flight from him ran headlong upon the spears. Go now, ye rabble, and gird at slow delays!