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Poems on Various Subjects

with some Essays in Prose, Letters to Correspondents, &c. and A Treatise on Health. By Samuel Bowden
 
 

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Epig. 6. On the Combat of a Woman with a Lion, in the Amphitheatre.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Epig. 6. On the Combat of a Woman with a Lion, in the Amphitheatre.

Not Mars alone, great Cæsar fights for you,
In armor fierce, but Venus triumphs too.
In Nemæa's vale, let antient records tell,
How the dread lion by Alcides fell;
Your nobler shows eclipse the hero's fame,
For lo! a female arm performs the same.