multiplici dux daemon adest, qui parte sinistra centifidum confundit iter; trahit inde sophistas barbatos, trahit hinc opibus vel honore potentes; inlicit et volucrum linguis et haruspice fallit, instigat bacchantis anus ambage Sibyllae, involvit mathesi, magicas inpellit in artes, omine sollicitat, capit augure, territat extis.
On the manifold way the guide is the devil, who on the left hand splits it into the confusion of a hundred paths. One way he drags bearded philosophers, another way men who are mighty in riches or honour. He tempts them on with the voices of birds, too, and cheats them with soothsaying, incites them with the obscurities of a raving old Sibyl, entangles them in astrology, drives them on to practise magic arts, inveigling them with omens, deceiving them with augury, frightening them with entrails of beasts.
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