Cura tibi, neveisque alios miscere colores,
Alternosque metus subtemine tendere longo.
Cyneg. 303-311.
The same fact is asserted in a striking passage, which has been above quoted from Gratius Faliscus. To the same effect are the following passages:
Nec est mirum, cum maximos ferarum greges linea pennis distincta conterreat, et ad insidias agat, ab ipso effectu dicta formido.—Seneca, de Ira, ii. 11.
Feras lineis et pinna conclusas contine: easdem a tergo eques telis incessat: tentabunt fugam per ipsa quæ fugerant, proculcabuntque formidinem.—Seneca, de Clementia, i. 12.
Picta rubenti lineo pinna
Vano claudat terrore feras.
Seneca Frag. Hippol. i. 1.