] nam bene qui didicere deos securum agere aevom, si tamen interea mirantur qua ratione quaeque geri possint, praesertim rebus in illis quae supera caput aetheriis cernuntur in oris, rursus in antiquas referuntur religiones, et dominos aeris adsciscunt, omnia posse quos miseri credunt, ignari quid queat esse, quid nequeat, finita potestas denique cuique quanam sit ratione atque alte terminus haerens; quo magis errantes caeca ratione feruntur.
For if those who have been rightly taught that the gods have a life without care, yet wonder all the while how things can go on, especially those transactions which are perceived overhead in the ethereal regions, they revert again to the old superstitions, and take to themselves cruel taskmasters, whom the poor wretches believe to be omnipotent, ignorant as they are what can be and what cannot, in a word how the power of each thing has been limited and its boundary firmly fixed; so they are all the more driven astray by blind reasoning.
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