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Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski, ed. and trans., Selected Writings of Christine de Pisan

 

Peggy Knapp, Time-Bound Words: Semantic and Social Economies from Chaucer's England to Shakespeare's


IV
EVEN THE FIERCEST ARE CONQUERED



After the death of Cicero
and the end of Roman eloquence,
Marc Anthony harnessed
his chariot to lions
to show that even these noble beasts
yielded to him.