at te, quae domitis leges ac iura dedisti gentibus, instituens, magnus qua tenditur orbis, armorum morumque feros mansuescere ritus, indignum ac miserum est in religione tenenda hoc sapere, inmanes populi de more ferino quod sapiunt nullaque rudes ratione sequuntur.
But for thee, who hast appointed law and justice to the conquered nations, teaching savage ways of war and life, the wide world oer, to become civilised, it is a sorry shame that in thy clinging to superstition thy thoughts should be those of barbarous, brutish peoples who adopt them in unreasoning ignorance.
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