quamquam cur genium Romae mihi fingitis unum, cum portis, domibus, thermis, stabulis soleatis adsignare suos genios perque omnia membra urbis perque locos geniorum milia multa fingere, ne propria vacet angulus ullus ab umbra? restat ut et fatum similis dementia cunctis aedibus inponat, paries ut quisque sub astro fundatus structusque suo, qua sorte maneret, quando autem rueret, primis acceperit horis.
And yet why do I find you pagans imagining but one genius of Rome, seeing that you are wont to attribute to gates, houses, public baths, taverns, each its own genius, and throughout every part of the city at every point imagine thousands of geniuses, so that no corner shall be without its own ghost? It only remains for a like delusion to set a destiny too on every building, so that each wall shall have been laid and erected under its own star, and in its first hours assigned the fortune under which it should stand, and the time of its fall.
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