inde pedem referens, labentia membra propinquo imposuit scopulo atque, undanti vulnere anhelans, sedit terribilis clipeum super ore cruento: immanis ceu, depulsis levioribus hastis, accepit leo cum tandem per pectora ferrum, stat teli patiens media tremebundus harena ac, manante iubis rictuque et naribus unda sanguinis, interdum languentia murmura torquens, effundit patulo spumantem ex ore cruorem.
Then he drew back and rested his failing limbs on a rock near by; gasping from his streaming wound, he sat down upon his shield, a formidable figure with his gory face. So a huge lion shakes off the lighter spears; but when at last the sword has been driven home in his breast, he stands in the centre of the arena, quivering but resigned to the blow; the blood streams from mane and mouth and nostrils, and from time to time he utters a dull roaring, and spits out blood and foam from his wide jaws.
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