at contra ferro squalentia rura coluntur; ferro vivendi prima reperta via est: saecula semideum, ferrati nescia Martis, ferro crudeles sustinuere feras: humanis manibus non sufficit usus inermis, si non sint aliae ferrea tela manus.
But not so iron: it is with iron that neglected fields are tilled; by iron was the first way of living found. Races of demigods, who knew not iron-harnessed Mars, by iron faced the charge of savage beasts. For human hands their unarmed use is not enough, if iron weapons lent not other hands.
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