haec causa est et origo mali, quod saecla vetusto hospite regnante crudus stupor aurea finxit, quodque novo ingenio versutus Iuppiter astus multiplices variosque dolos texebat, ut illum, vertere cum vellet pellem faciemque, putarent esse bovem, praedari aquilam, concumbere cycnum, et nummos fieri et gremium penetrare puellae.
The cause and fountain-head of the evil is that raw stupidity imagined a golden age in the reign of the old stranger, and that with his unheard-of cleverness the wily Jupiter devised many a dexterous trick and form of guile, so that, when he chose to change his skin and features, men thought he was a bull, or an eagle carrying off his prey, or a swan at his loves, and that he turned into money and so made his way to the maidens bosom.
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