Epigram on a Cat

Domingo Andrés (c. 1525–c. 1599), ‘De fele’

In praedam inuehitur quasi concita fulminis ales,
   Estque omnis fetus sputaque feles edax.

As if by a rushing thunderbolt the bird is attacked, fitting prey,
And the cat gorges thus on all the little birds, even to their very spittle.

Domingo Andrés, Poesías Varias del alcañizano Domingo Andrés, ed. & trans. José María Maestre Maestre (Teruel: Instituto de Estudios Turolenses de la Excma, 1987), p. 208 [Lib. III.CLV]. English Translation by L.M.P.