Postremo cur sancta deum delubra suasque discutit infesto praeclaras fulmine sedes, et bene facta deum frangit simulacra suisque demit imaginibus violento volnere honorem? altaque cur plerumque petit loca plurimaque eius montibus in summis vestigia cernimus ignis? Quod superest, facilest ex his cognoscere rebus, presteras Graii quos ab re nominitarunt, in mare qua missi veniant ratione superne.
Lastly, why does he shatter holy shrines of the gods, and even his own illustrious habitations, with the fatal thunderbolt, why smash fine-wrought images of the gods and rob his own statues of their grandeur with a violent wound? And why does he generally attack high places, why do we see most traces of his fire on the mountain-tops? To pass on, it is easy from these thoughts to understand in what way those things which the Greeks call from their nature presteres come down from above into the sea.
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