Willa Cather (1873–1947) American writer and novelist
16 September 1902
Source: Willa Cather in Europe (1956), Ch. 14
“One stroke of sword and all the world is yours.
Make plain to all men that the crowds who decked
Pompeius' hundred pageants scarce were fit
For one poor triumph.”
— Marcus Annaeus Lucanus, book Pharsalia
Book VII, line 278 (tr. E. Ridley).
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