he truly walks ever by their side, now abreast of the foremost of the cattle, and now of the hindmost, but the lion leaps upon the midmost, and devours a heifer, and thereat they all flee in terror;
ἤτοι ὃ μὲν πρώτῃσι καὶ ὑστατίῃσι βόεσσιν αἰὲν ὁμοστιχάει , ὃ δέ τ' ἐν μέσσῃσιν ὀρούσας βοῦν ἔδει , αἳ δέ τε πᾶσαι ὑπέτρεσαν ·
ἤτοι ὁ μέν πρῶτος καί ὑστάτιος βοῦς ἀεί ὁμοστιχάω , ὁ δέ τε ἐν μέσος ὀρούω βοῦς ἔδω , ὁ δέ τε πᾶς ὑποτρέω ·