Interim cum esset inter nos de aquae potestate et eius virtutibus sermo, exposuit esse in ea terra eiusmodi fontes, ut, qui ibi procrearentur, voces ad cantandum egregias haberent, ideoque semper transmarinos catlastros emere formonsos et puellas maturas eosque coniungere, ut, qui nascerentur ex his, non solum voce egregia sed etiam forma essent non invenusta.
Once the question arose between us about the potency of water and its virtues. He informed me that, in his country, there were springs such that those who were born in the neighbourhood had fine singing voices, and that they bought from time to time across the sea handsome youths and grown-up girls and mated them so that their children might have fine voices and good looks as well.
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