“Do ye not think ye are making war on Hyrcanian tigers or facing angry Libyan lions?”

—  Statius , book Thebaid

Source: Thebaid, Book IX, Line 15 (tr. J. H. Mozley)

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Nonne Hyrcanis bellare putatis tigribus, aut saeuos Libyae contra ire leones?

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