his, ni fallor, ager vitiis corruptus et ante subiacuit quam Palladium, quam Vesta penates sub lare Pergameo servarent igne reposto, quam Priami genitor conductis moenia fabris extrueret, quam virgo suas fundaret Athenas Pallas; in his quoniam Vestalis origo favillae urbibus, ut memorant, primo de fomite sumpta est sacraruntque focos aut Phryx aut Graius alumnos.
To such failings, I feel sure, the land was subject and was spoiled by them, even before the Palladium or Vesta with her fire hid from view kept safe the spirits of the house  under a Trojan roof; before Priams father hired workmen to build his walls, before the maiden Pallas founded her own dear Athens'for it was in these cities, as they tell, that the Vestal fire was first caught from the primal touchwood, and Phrygian or Greek fed the hearths and held them sacred.
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