The Definition and Boundaries of Eucharistic Space in the Grail Prose Romances: Focalization and Dissemination

 

Item potest dicere peccator cum intrat conscientiam suam eam scrutando, quod dixit Julius Cesar Romanis, rediens de obsidione cujusdam civitatis rebellis: “Inveni, ait, ollam plenam diris serpentibus.”

[Item, the sinner can say when he enters his conscience to examine it what Julius Caesar said to the Romans upon his return from a siege of a rebel city: “I found,” he said, “a jar full of horrid snakes.”]

Etienne de Bourbon, exemplum 186 b–c, Tractatus de diversis materiis predicabilibus ¹