The Lion, the Witch, and the-……I mean The Lion, the Hare, and the Deer

Leo, dormientem leporem nactus, confestim eum devorare parabat.  

While sleeping, the lion, having gotten a hare, immediately prepared

to devour him.

• Cervam interim praetereuntem conspicatus, relicto lepore, eam persequi coepit.

• In the meantime, a stag, which caught sight of this while passing by, began to pursue him, leaving the hare abandoned.

• Lepus interea, strepitu excitatus, inde fugam abripuit.

• At the same time, the hare, awakened by the noise, ran off.

• Leo autem, postquam cervam longe est insecutus nec eam adsequi potuit, ad leporem reversus est.

• The lion, however, after the stag pursued it far out of reach, returned to where the hare was.

• Sed eum quoque fuga elapsum cum reperisset, “Ego mehercule digna patior,” inquit, “quia, paratam in manibus escam reiiciens, incertam volui spem sequi.”

• But he escaped through flight as well, and also realized, “I relate to you, and worthy is what I suffer,” he said, “because, by refusing food prepared in their hands, I have to follow uncertain hope.