Denique Tyndaridem raptam belloque subactas Troiiugenas gentis cum dicunt esse, videndumst ne forte haec per se cogant nos esse fateri, quando ea saecla hominum, quorum haec eventa fuerunt, inrevocabilis abstulerit iam praeterita aetas; namque aliud terris, aliud regionibus ipsis eventum dici poterit quodcumque erit actum.
Moreover, when they say that the rape of Tyndareus daughter and the conquest by war of the Trojan tribes are facts, we must see to it that they do not compel us to admit that these things are of themselves, on the ground that those generations of men, of whom these were accidents, the irrevocable ages past have already carried away; for whatever has been done may be called an accident either of the whole earth or of the actual regions in which it occurred.
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