adscribunt saxis Lachesis male fortia fila, tectorumque trabes fusis pendere rotatis credunt, atque ipsis tribuunt decreta tigillis, ceu distet cuius stellae sit fraxinus ortu eruta, quae summum conscenderet ardua culmen.
They ascribe to stones the weak threads of Lachesis and believe that our roof-timbers depend on her whirling spindles, attributing her decrees to the very beams; as if it made a difference at what stars rising the ash-tree was uprooted, which was to mount high to the rooftop.
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