Arcades huic veteres, astris lunaque priores, agmina fida datis, nemorum quos stirpe rigenti fama satos, cum prima pedum vestigia tellus admirata tulit; nondum arva domusque nec urbes, conubiisve modus; quercus laurique ferebant cruda puerperia, ac populos umbrosa creavit fraxinus, et feta viridis puer excidit orno.
To him the Arcadians, an old race earlier than stars and moon, give loyal troops. They were born, as legend tells, from the stiff forest trees when the astonished earth first felt the print of feet. Not yet were there fields and houses or cities or marriage rules. Oaks and laurels bore stout offspring, the shady ash created peoples, a vigorous boy dropped from the pregnant rowan.
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