tunc alnos primum fluvii sensere cavatas; navita tum stellis numeros et nomina fecit, Pleades, Hyadas, claramque Lycaonis Arcton; tum laqueis captare feras et fallere visco inventum et magnos canibus circumdare saltus; atque alius latum funda iam verberat amnem alta petens, pelagoque alius trahit umida lina; tum ferri rigor atque argutae lammina serrae (nam primi cuneis scindebant fissile lignum), tum variae venere artes.
Then first did rivers feel upon their backs boats of hollowed alder, then the mariner grouped and named the stars, Pleiads and Hyads and Lycaons daughter, the radiant Bear. Then was discovered how to catch game with traps, snare birds with lime, and how to encircle vast coverts with hunting dogs. Already one man is lashing a broad stream with his casting net, seeking the bottom, while another trawls through the sea his dripping meshes. Then came unyielding iron and the blade of the rasping saw (for primitive man used wedges to cleave wood until it split), and art followed hard on art.
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