fama minor factis: ipsos nam credere dignum caelicolas, tellus quibus hospita semper Athenae, ceu leges hominemque novum ritusque sacrorum seminaque in vacuas hinc descendentia terras, sic sacrasse loco commune animantibus aegris confugium, unde procul starent iraeque minaeque regnaque, et a iustis Fortuna recederet aris.
The tale falls short of the truth. For we may fitly believe that the sky-dwellers themselves, to whom Athens has always been hospitable ground, just as they gave laws and a new man  and sacred rites and seeds hence descending into empty soils, even so hallowed in the place a common refuge for living creatures in trouble, whence anger and threats and monarchies should stand far removed and Fortune withdraw from the righteous altar.
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