quantos tum gemitus ipsi sibi, quantaque nobis volnera, quas lacrimas peperere minoribu nostris! nec pietas ullast velatum saepe videri vertier ad lapidem atque omnis accedere ad aras, nec procumbere humi prostratum et pandere palmas ante deum delubra, nec aras sanguine multo spargere quadrupedum, nec votis nectere vota, sed mage placata posse omnia mente tueri.
What groans did they then create for themselves, what wounds for us, what tears for generations to come! It is no piety to show oneself often with covered head, turning towards a stone and approaching every altar, none to fall prostrate upon the ground and to spread open the palms before shrines of the gods, none to sprinkle altars with the blood of beasts in showers and to link vow to vow; but rather to be able to survey all things with tranquil mind.
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