necdum etiam doctas sollertia fecerat artes, terraque sub rudibus cessabat vasta colonis; tumque in desertis habitabat montibus aurum, immotusque novos pontus subduxerat orbes, nec vitam pelago nec ventis credere vota audebant; se quisque satis novisse putabant.
Nor as yet had ingenuity taught man arts and crafts: the earth lay waste and idled under ignorant husbandmen; gold then had its abode in unvisited mountains, and the sea disturbed by none concealed the existence of unsuspected worlds, for man dared not to entrust his life to the deep or his hopes to the winds, and deemed his little knowledge adequate.
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