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Hic tantum Boreae curamus frigora, Quantum aut numerum lupus aut torrentia flumina ripas.
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Hic tantum Boreae curamus frigora, Quantum aut numerum lupus aut torrentia flumina ripas.
— We fear not more the winds and wintry cold,
Than streams the banks, or wolves the bleating fold.
— Book VII, lines 51–52 (translated by John Dryden).
— Cf. the Francis Bacon's paraphrase:
"It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep be."
