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The Indian tiger lives in perfect peace with the fierce
Tigress, and savage bears live together in harmony.

Indica tigris agit rabida cum tigride pacem
perpetuam, saevis inter se convenit ursis.

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Line 163 (tr. A. S. Kline)

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