conculcabis

Updated: May 5, 2025

It is said that Gregory first placed his foot upon Henry's neck, uttering these words of Scripture: 'Super aspidem et basiliscum ambulabis, et conculcabis leonem et draconem, and that then he raised him from the earth and formally pronounced his pardon.

John Addington Symonds - Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series