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Even so a shepherd, seeking safety for his flock, lures the wolves at night by the bleating of a tethered lamb into the pitfall masked by a slender covering of leafage.

— Silius Italicus

Haud secus ac stabulis procurans otia pastor
in foveam parco tectam velamine frondis
ducit nocte lupos positae balatibus agnae.

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Book VI, lines 329–331

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