quod superest, nunc huc rationis detulit ordo, ut mihi mortali consistere corpore mundum nativomque simul ratio reddunda sit esse; et quibus ille modis congressus materiai fundarit terram caelum mare sidera solem lunaique globum; tum quae tellure animantes extiterint, et quae nullo sint tempore natae; quove modo genus humanum variante loquella coeperit inter se vesci per nomina rerum; et quibus ille modis divom metus insinuarit pectora, terrarum qui in orbi sancta tuetur fana lacus lucos aras simulacraque divom.
Now for what remains the order of my design has brought me to this point, that I must show how the frame of which the world consists is subject to death and has also had birth; in what ways that assemblage of matter established earth, sky, sea, and stars, the sun and the ball of the moon; then explaining what animals arose from the earth, and what have never been born at any time; and in what manner the human race began to use variety or speech in their intercourse by means of the names of things; and in what ways that fear of gods crept into the heart, which in our earth keeps holy their shrines and pools and groves, their altars and images.
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