The hare’s coming to the lion and the lion’s anger with him.

1150 The lion, incensed and wrathful and frantic, saw the hare coming from afar,

Running undismayed and confidently, looking angry and fierce and fell and sour.

For by coming humbly (he thought) suspicion would be (excited), while by boldness every cause of doubt would be removed.

When he came further on, near to the “shoe-row^[64.1],” the lion shouted—“Ha, villain!

I who have torn oxen limb from limb, I who have rubbed the ear of (chastised and vanquished) the ferocious elephant—

1155 Who (what) is a half-witted (feeble) hare, that he should thus throw on the ground (disregard) my behest?”

Abandon the hare’s slumber and heedlessness! Give ear, O donkey, to the roaring of this lion!^[64.2]