Taught to roam unexplored woodlands with courage and to chase hirsute game in the hills, unaccustomed ever to be restrained by heavy harnesses or to endure savage beatings with my snow-white body: for I used to lie in my master’s and my mistress’s lap and mastered the art of resting wearily on a spread-out blanket.
docta per incertas audax discurrere silvas collibus atque agitare non gravibus vinc(u)lis unquam nec niveo corpore saeva pati: molli namque sinu domini dominaeque iacebam et noram in strato lassa cubare et plus quam licuit muto canis ore loquebar: nulli latratus pertimuere meos.