ne vulgata canam, linguas didicere volucrum, consultare fibras et rumpere vocibus angues, sollicitare umbras imumque Acheronta movere, in noctemque dies, in lucem vertere noctes omnia conando docilis sollertia vicit.
Not to tell the commonplace, men learnt to understand the utterance of birds; to divine from the entrails of animals; to burst snakes asunder by incantations; to summon up the dead and rouse the depths of Acheron; to turn day into night and night into the brightness of day. Thus, ever ready to learn, ingenuity by its endeavours overcame all obstacles.
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