et facere ante viros lanam natura coegit quam muliebre genus (nam longe praestat in arte et sollertius est multo genus omne virile), agricolae donec vitio vertere severi, ut muliebribus id manibus concedere vellent atque ipsi pariter durum sufferre laborem atque opere in duro durarent membra manusque.
And nature made men work in wool before womankind (for the male sex as a whole is far superior in skill and more clever), until the austere farmers made it a reproach, so that the men agreed to leave it in womens hands and themselves to share in hard labour and by hard work hardened their bodies and hands.
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