Illud sane neque obscurum est neque incertum, infaustos transvehendi barbaram plebem ministros, numerum eius comprehendere calculo saepe temptantes, conquievisse frustratos, ut eminentissimus memorat vates, Quem qui scire velit, Libyci velit aequoris idem Discere, quam multae zephyro truduntur harenae.
This at any rate is neither obscure nor uncertain, that the ill-omened officials who ferried the barbarian hordes often tried to reckon their number, but gave up their vain attempt; as the most distinguished of poets says: Who wishes to know this would wish to know How many grains of sand on Libyan plain By Zephyrus are swept.
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