sed cum longa dies acuit mortalia corda et labor ingenium miseris dedit et sua quemque advigilare sibi iussit fortuna premendo, seducta in varias certarunt pectora curas et, quodcumque sagax temptando repperit usus, in commune bonum commentum laeta dederunt.
But long ages sharpened human wits, the struggle for survival endowed those wretched folk with ingenuity, and the burden of each mans lot forced him to look to himself to better it: then they took thought to divide their tasks and vied with each other in performing them, and whatever discovery shrewd experience had found by trial, they joyfully surrendered to the common weal.
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