“So in the dark of night a dense crowd of shepherds wards off a wolf from the steer he has caught.”

— Statius , book Thebaid

Source: Thebaid, Book VIII, Line 691

Original

Sic densa lupum jam nocte sub atra arcet ab apprenso pastorum turba juvenco.

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