Neque hoc potuisset fieri, nisi primum propinquitas esset'non enim plus sunt ab lapidicinis ad fanum milia passuum octo'nec ullus est clivus sed perpetuus campus.
This expedient would not have been possible unless, to begin with, the distance had been short. It is not more than eight miles from the quarries to the temple, and there are no hills but an unbroken plain.
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