Quoting%20commentary for Bava Kamma 233:21

אזיל אשכחיה לריש לקיש דיתיב וקא מסיים מתיבתא דיומא לרבנן אמר להו ריש לקיש היכא אמרו ליה אמאי אמר להו האי קושיא והאי קושיא והאי פירוקא והאי פירוקא אמרו ליה לריש לקיש אזל ריש לקיש א"ל לרבי יוחנן ארי עלה מבבל לעיין מר במתיבתא דלמחר

A certain man who was desirous of showing another man's straw [to be confiscated] appeared before Rab, who said to him: 'Don't show it! Don't show it!' He retorted: 'I <i>will</i> show it! I <i>will</i> show it!' R. Kahana was then sitting before Rab, and he tore [that man's] windpipe out of him. Rab thereupon quoted: <i>Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the heads of all the streets as a wild bull in a net</i>;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Isa. LI, 20. ');">³⁴</span> just as when a <i>'wild bull'</i> falls into a<i> 'net'</i> no one has mercy upon it, so with the property of an Israelite, as soon as it falls into the hands of heathen oppressors no mercy is exercised towards it.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' More correctly perhaps, 'towards him', referring thus to the Israelite; v. Ab. II, 2, also Asheri B.K. X, 27; the act of R. Kahana was in this way vindicated. ');">³⁵</span>

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