Quo exemplo terrigenas illos, non sinibus terrae emersos, sed exuberanti pernicitate credimus natos, qui quoniam inopini per varia visebantur,  vocitati, humo exsiluisse, vetustate rem fabulosius extollente, sunt aestimati.
Judging from this instance, we believe that the famous sons of earth did not come forth from the bosom of the land, but were born with extraordinary swiftness'those so-called sparti, who, because they were seen unexpectedly in sundry places, were thought to have sprung from the earth, since antiquity gave the matter a fabulous origin.
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