17 BULL AND LION ( ANONYMOUS )
SUPERSCRIPTION Quid tu bella moves papalis Bulla Leoni ? Ballam te bullam reddidit iste Leo .
Papal Bull , why do you wage wars against the Lion ? That Lion returned you cannonball for your bull .
LION 1 OUTLINE , READING FROM THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE HEAD , CLOCKWISE Proh ! Deus ille hominem fecit regemque leonem ut regat hic homines ut regat ille feras ; ne iugulet tauros rexve leove feros . Tauros cauda premit si mihi eruunt ungues . Si pedis usus erit , frangenturque ungues ungue pedesque pede , ventremque venter comprimet . Qui nunc colluctat pedes leonis satietur os caputque sanguine tauri .
Oh , it is God who has made kings of man and lion , that the one might rule men , and that the other might rule beasts ; let not either king or lion slay wild bulls . If their hooves tear me , my tail presses bulls . If there is use of the foot , hooves shall be shattered by hoof , and feet by foot , and belly will check belly . He who now struggles with the lion ’ s feet , let him sate his mouth and head with the blood of the bull .
2 MANE , READING RIGHT TO LEFT , DESCENDING Quin nunc et illa cornua quae fecit in Palatio det papa cardinalibus ; illos decebunt cornua , cornua tauri .
Now indeed those horns also , which he made on the Palatine , let the Pope give to the cardinals ; horns shall beseem them , the horns of the bull .
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