Venere Aethiopes, gens haud incognita Nilo, qui magneta secant; solis honor ille, metalli intactum chalybem vicino ducere saxo.
The Ethiopians came, a race whom the Nile knows well, who dig the loadstone from the earth; they alone have the power to attract the iron of the mine without the use of tools by placing the stone beside it.
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