quid sanctius ara quae bibit egestum per mystica tela cruorem? anne fides dubia est tibi sub caligine caeca esse deum, quem tu tacitis rimeris in umbris? ecce, deos manes cur infitiaris haberi? ipsa patrum monumenta probant: Dis Manibus illic marmora secta lego, quacumque Latina vetustos custodit cineres densisque Salaria bustis.
What more holy than an altar which drinks blood drawn by ritual weapons? Do you waver in your belief that there exists, in the blind darkness below, the god for whom you grope amid the silent shades? See there! Why do you deny that the spirits of the dead are counted divine, when your fathers very monuments prove it? I read there marble slabs inscribed To the divine spirit of the dead, wherever the Latin or the Salarian road guards the old ashes in their thickly planted tombs.
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