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For with my posterior parts elevated, I frequently kicked him with my hind feet, and having severely punished him, and laid him prostrate at the foot of the next mountain, I liberated myself by flight. Immediately, however, a certain woman, viz., the wife of the gardener, as soon as she beheld him from an eminence, prostrate and half dead, flew to him, with lamentation and howling, in order that by her own commiseration she might be the occasion of my present destruction. For all the rustics, b...eing excited by her lamentations, immediately called out their dogs, and every- where incited them, that being driven by fury, they might rush upon and tear me in pieces. I therefore, being without doubt at that time near to death, when I saw that thfe dogs, who were congregated and exasperated against me, were large and numer- ous, and fit to fight with bears and lions, availing myself of the counsel suggested by the existing circumstance, put an end to 1 Good Evfntf or the cause of prosperity in our undertakings, was adored by the ancients as a God.
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