haud, ut opinor, enim mortalia saecla superne aurea de caelo demisit funis in arva, nec mare nec fluctus plangentes saxa crearunt, sed genuit tellus eadem quae nunc alit ex se.
For it is not true, as I think, that the races of mortal creatures were let down from high heaven by some golden chain upon the fields, nor were they sprung from sea or waves beating upon the rocks, but the same earth generated them which feeds them now from herself.
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