Nemora quoque et lucos sacros non caedunt modo, sed etiam extirpant, ut vasta solitudo et sterilis humus, exustis etiam radicibus,  linqueretur.
As for their woods also and their sacred groves, they not only cut them down, but even pulled out the stumps, to the end that, since even the roots were burned out, nothing but a desert waste  and sterile ground might be left.
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