atque haec e multis carpsit mollissima mensae:  Argolicis quondam populis, mirabile dictu, exaudita chelys, lapidem testudine felix ducere et in muris posuisse volentia saxa.
And this was the song he chose out of many, as most grateful to those who sat at meat: Long ago the nations of Greece'marvellous to tell'heard the shell of the tortoise sound, and the shell had power to draw stones and bring them of their own accord, to make walls for a city.
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