Εὐφήμει, ὦ ἄνθρωπε· ἁσμενέστατα μέντοι αὐτὸ ἀπέφυγον, ὥσπερ λυττῶντά τινα καὶ ἄγριον δεσπότην ἀποδράς → Hush, man, most gladly have I escaped this thing you talk of, as if I had run away from a raging and savage beast of a master
lĕaena: ae, f., = λέαινα,
I a lioness: statuerunt aeream leaenam, Cic. ap. Philarg. ad Verg. E. 2, 63; Plin. 8, 16, 17, § 45; Gell. 13, 7, 1; Tib. 3, 4, 90; Verg. E. 2, 63; id. G. 3, 245; 4, 408; Ov. M. 4, 97; 514; 9, 615; 13, 547; Cat. 64, 154.